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THE PATRIOTS^ PROTEST 

A CALL TO THE COLORS 



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FARRAND OF CHICAGO 

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CONTENTS 



AMERICA'S NEED 4 

DEDICATION 5 

FOREWORD 6 

PREFACE 7 

INTRODUCTION 9 

AMERICA'S POSITION 12 

WAR AND PEACE 19 

BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY 27 

-ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 36 

FRENCH PASS GERMAN BIRTH RATE 47 

ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 54 

THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 62 

MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 75 

THE FAITH OF THE FUTURE 82 

DIAGNOSIS OF CHRISTIANITY 83 

OUR HERITAGE 85 

PARTY LOYALTY 88 

TEDDY'S TANTALIZING TENACITY 92 

PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT 94 

INDEX 95 



DEDICATED 

TO AMERICAN PATRIOTS 

Who assert for every resident 
the liberty to speak freely his 
opinion and champion his judg- 
ment without censure or impair- 
ment of the divine right to be 
lord of his own soul, master of 
his own mind, and captain of his 
own destiny; the plain people — 

SOVEREIGN CITIZENS OF AMERICA 



AMERICA'S NEED 



She needs men ! 

Strong and stalwart ones; 
Men whom highest hope inspires, 
Men whom purest honor fires, 
Men who trample self beneath them, 
Men who make their country wreath them 

As her noble sons 

Worthy of their sires! 
Men who never shame their mothers. 
Men who never fail their brothers; 
True, however false are others; 

Give her men — I say again, 
Give her men ! 

(Adaptation of poem by J. J. Miller, D. D., 
from Farm Press, Chicago, III.) 



FOREWORD 

Collaboration of It would be impossible to lay too strong an 
Common People, emphasis upon som^e very vital points in the 
' following pages, but the pubHsher desires that 
this "Foreword" shall especially emphasize the fact that the 
author is one of the common people with but a common educa- 
tion, the crime of child labor (the author became a laboring 
"man" at nine and at seventeen "worked himself to death") 
mentally incapacitating him for the acquirement of a high school 
diploma. 

This is not said in apology for the merit of this pubHcation, 
it is said to emphasize the statement that what the author has 
done any common person may do if he follow the apostle's ad- 
monition, "think on these things." 

The author asks the reader to peruse these pages with the 
thought ever in mind that the contents represent, not his work, 
but the production of a composite aggregate of the thought of 
the common people of America who follow Socrates' advice, 
"Know (for) thyself," and do do their own thinking. 

Forewarning and It is due the common people to add the corn- 
Challenge, pliment contained in the assertion that this 
work has not exhausted the mutual. ideas of 
the collaborators of this volume. A favorable verdict by the 
reading public will draw the fire of additional volleys from the 
arsenals of common public sentiment. 

To this foreword the author adds this forewarning and chal- 
lenge. When the World's greatest fair is held to commemorate 
the third centenary of the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims, 
the author will advance a policy for the domestic government of 
our country which will astound the nation while availing it of 
the most effective force for the solution of its personal and public 
problems. 

The author is ready to jump into the arenas of national and 
world politics, and civic and religious public life and stay there, 
and he challenges the world to draw the fire that will cause a 
premature explosion of this revolutionary idea. 



PREFACE 

The Challenge. Upon the Seventeenth to the Twenty-Second 
of September, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen, 
while returning on "S. S. Cymric" from a visit to England, 
Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune wrote his "Note- 
book of a Neutral." 

This was copyrighted and printed by the Chicago Tribune in a 
series of six articles, running from October Sixth to the 
Eleventh, under Decatur's slogan, "Our Country! Jn her inter- 
course with foreign nations may she always be in the right ; but 
our country, right or wrong." 

On Sunday, October Tenth, The Tribune carried an editorial 
advocating that our country should renounce the foreign policy 
bequeathed to his country by Washington and enter into inter- 
national alliances with the old world powers. There is no diffi- 
culty in making the deduction as to which European nation the 
writer of this editorial had in mind when advocating our intrusion 
into the poHtical affairs of the old world. 

The author, one of the plain people which constitute the ranks 
of the citizenship of our country, felt that Patterson's treatment 
of his subject constituted a challenge to every self-respecting 
American Patriot, and set about to employ his spare time in for- 
mulating a reply. 

The Reply. This reply was ready on November Eleventh, 

just one month from the appearance of the 
last installment of Patterson's "Notebook," but The Tribune 
would not accept it for publication, and the other papers did not 
care to take the undignified position of giving to Patterson's 
article the dignity a reply would attach to it. 

It is not likely that Patterson's article had a very wide reading, 
therefore the author does not pubHsh "The Protest" so much in 



8 PREFACE 

reply to him as to take advantage of an opportunity to treat a 
diversity of subjects under one cover. 

"The Protest" is here published in the form prepared in the 
first completed draft, and every subject injected therein is at the 
direct instance of something said by Mr. Patterson. The same is 
true in the case of nearly every point raised in the treatment of 
these subjects. 

The Slogan, In respect to the patriotic idea which inspired 

Then and Now. Decatur's erstwhile famous declaration, we will 
do well to remember that it applied with great 
force in the days when the highways of communication were 
crude and slow. Then one might know that his country needed 
his defense without knowing the justice of his country's cause. 

Today, through facilitation of communication, the humblest 
American citizen may be fully instructed to the end that he may 
judge for himself the justice of his country's cause. It is his 
right to receive complete information in regard to his country's 
relations with foreign nations, and only to himself is he answer- 
able in his judgment whether the justice of his country's position 
demands his support. 

"No taxation without representation" was the war cry of 
American Independence. No war service without direct partici- 
pation in the diplomatic negotiations which threaten the country's 
peace with foreign nations is the demand of the best patriotism 
of today. ' 



INTRODUCTION 

Free Speech We are in the midst of days in which certain 

Defended. conspicuous personages in our land, themselves 

taking extreme license to surcharge their lan- 
guage with bitter invectiveness, seek to curtail the constitutional 
right of the private citizen to enjoy the blessings of free speech. 
Though the author holds that each and every resident of this 
country is entitled to free and unrestricted liberty of speech, pro- 
vided he does not hold public office or represent another govern- 
ment, he realizes that the opinions of those whose ancestry dates 
back to colonial days will be considered entitled to a more 
courteous reception, and will receive greater consideration in the 
estimation of the public, than will be accredited to the utterances 
of those who may be designated as belonging to the recent acqui- 
sitions to our population. 

French Therefore the author feels that it is due to his 

Ancestry. readers that he tell them somewhat of his 

ancestry. Prior to 1639, four Farrand brothers 
came to America on the same ship, and the blood which courses 
through the author's veins is still laden with those properties of 
character which were manifest in his forebears in those remote 
centuries when the nation of France was aborning. 

Before the centuries of the Christian era had attained their 
teenage, upon a time when some French barons were planning a 
campaign of conquest, the leading spirit in the enterprise, allotting 
the distribution of prixes which their combined forces were to 
capture, said, 'Thou, Ferrand, shall have Paris." 

This may have been the same Ferrand whose downfall was 
such an unlooked for eventuality that the populace came in 
wonder from great distances throughout the countryside that they 
might behold this thing which was beyond belief. The keener 
the humiliation shown by the proud captive as he glowered at 



10 INTRODUCTION 

the crowds which gloated over his fall, the greater the relish of 
those who had been made to feel his tyranny, which was so well 
known that the very mention of his name filled hearts with terror. 
For weeks the exhibition of the mighty Ferrand in chains was a 
source of great delectation to the masses who had felt his power. 
It was inevitable that the Ferrands should cast their lot with 
the Huguenots. Henceforth and forevermore they became Far- 
rand. Following St. Bartholomew they sought refuge in England, 
where to this day they are to be found in great numbers in the 
vicinity of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. 

American March 17, 1685, Nathaniel Farrand, father and 

Ancestry. son, witnessed the deed which the Indians gave 

to the proprietors of the village of New Mil- 
ford, Connecticut, evidently selected as signers of this docu- 
ment because they could write their names ! 

At the massacre of Fort William Henry, in 1757, Thomas 
Farrand, a youth of eighteen, was taken by the Indians captive 
to Canada. This Indian captive is my grandsire a few genera- 
tions removed, he or his son Thomas locating in Fairfax, Ver- 
mont. 

Joseph Farrand, one of twin boys born in 1757, served through- 
out the entire Revolution. Exposure to cold caused affection in 
his head and left thigh and leg, so that he was lame for life. He 
lived to be eighty-one, and the last thirty-five years he could not 
take a step without crutches. During the last twenty years he 
was totally blind and very deaf. 

A romantic incident of the Civil War is also of interest. 
Grandfather did not enlist, but when he was drafted, though a 
crippled wife and three small children were dependent upon him, 
he had no thought of evading the summons. A younger brother, 
Thaddeus Sobieski, named by his mother for the hero of the 
novel, "Thaddeus of Warsaw," by the author of "Scottish 
Chiefs," had to labor all night with Grandfather, to induce him 
to consent that the unmarried brother should go in his stead. 
Thus is the author's interest enlisted in the fate of both France 
and Poland. 



INTRODUCTION 11 

Though the major theme of an Anglo-American alhance domi- 
nates all of Patterson's six articles, for convenience they may be 
treated under the head of the following subjects: 
AMERICA'S POSITION, 
. WAR AND PEACE, 

BRITISH OR GERMAN. SUPREMACY, 
ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE, 
FRENCH AND GERMAN BIRTH RATE, 
ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS, 
THE JAPANESE PROBLEM. 

Sober Minded The author holds that those who are insti- 
Patriotism. gating the agitation for preparedness are guilty 

of the utmost infamy in branding the adher- 
ents of peace as advocates of "peace at any price." There are 
in our country no people who want peace at any price ; but the 
great, dependable body of our citizens are sober-minded enough 
to realize that America is just as likely to be in a compromising 
situation as is any nation with which she may be in disagreement, 
and these sober-minded patriots insist that no group of partisans 
shall be granted a position of power to involve the country in 
complications with foreign nations. 

Though the author has advanced many views for what they 
may be worth and feels that few will give full assent to all of 
them, he believes that the contents of this humble volume, in some 
parts thereof, will register a keynote in the convictions and opin- 
ions of the Patriots of America who insist upon being masters of 
their own thought. 

The author is an advocate of world peace, a noble construc- 
tion of the Monroe Doctrine, and government of all the people, 
by all the people, and for all the people, 

THE WORLD OVER. 



/AMERICA'S POSITION 

Reasons Impell- Mr. Patterson undertakes to present logical 
ing Protest. arguments to prove that Germany will he 

^eaten in this war, that it is to the interest o-f 
i^merica that Germany be beaten, and that America should 
insure both the defeat of Germany and fortification of her posi- 
tion against the vengeance of a defeated Germany through a 
hard and fast alhance with Great Britain. 

Since the writer no longer can lay claim to the exalted title 
of "Neutral," he will not deceive himself, as does Patterson, 
with the idea that his attitude is a neutral one; but feehng 
that Patterson has bestowed upon the English an honor unde- 
served, outraged justice in his fear of the Germans, and furled 
the "star-spangled banner" with disloyalty to shamelessly flout 
the white feather of cowardice, as one who expects to celebrate 
the third centenary of his ancestral Americanship, the writer is 
impelled to register the protest of 'An American Patriot," who, 
praying the indulgence of those wiser than he, enlists his humble 
talents in defense of America's glorious flag, "the stars and 
stripes," "the red, white and blue" emblem of loyalty, unselfish, 
pure and true, to God, Country and Right. 

Neutrality Worn At the outset of the war, though he grieved 
Down. that Germany had endangered the world's ac- 

ceptance of her culture, the writer was neutral 
in his sympathies, except for his beloved France; but as the 
stress of the conflict began to wear down the neutrality of our 
people, he found himself favoring the Germans. And now 
the action of The Tribune in openly advocating alliance with 
Great Britain has fanned into flame a strong and enduring 
enmity of the English and he becomes avowedly pro-German- 
though he does not hold that the course of Germany's diplo- 
matic Dolicv has been above criticism, for he resents any iortr" 



AMERICA'S POSITION 13 

of German propaganda, save the use of the public press, em- 
ployed in our country with the connivance of the German 
embassy. He opposes any secret service spying upon our coun- 
try under direction, or on behalf, of any government which has 
representation by duly accredited diplomatic or consular agents, 
nor does he approve of our country's so spying upon other 
nations. 

The Patriotic Recent utterances of President Wilson might 

Course.* create the feeling that the German embassy has 

had cognizance of the covert and overt pro- 
German propaganda in this country. If the evidence compromised 
the imperial government with an abuse of the neutrality of our 
people, President Wilson could have shown the part of a patriot 
by tendering the ambassador his passports. 

Such a course would have saved our government from the 
contempt of all who are tempted to participate in the enter- 
prises of foreign intrigue. 

President Wilson's stand on the submarine controversy has 
been unfortunate from the outset, for it sought to accomplish 
the impossible. We cannot demand from a belligerent nation 
protection for our citizens while they are harbored by its enemy 
to whom we are furnishing the munitions of war. 

Our Flag A dozen years ago the writer heard an English 

Insulted. deacon in Tremont Temple Baptist Church, 

George Lorimer's monument in Boston, say 
to a Sunday School class, "The American flag is a dirty rag." The 
writer's patriotism at the time was in a state of coma, owing 
to the spiritual depression entailed by knowledge that many 
of the boys who serve under "the red, white and blue" are 
dissolute in morals, so, he blushes to confess it, he held his 
peace. But if his present attitude of mind saves him from the 
spell of EngHsh power, he has great cause for thankfulness that 
God allowed this incident to preserve his American patriotism, 
and he is pledged to do his utmost to redeem his dereliction upon 
that occasion. 



*See page Eighty-one. 



14 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

A Slur Against Editorially The Tribune says that "Washing- 
Washington, ton warned his contemporaries against en- 
tangling alliances. * * * He was too sen- 
sible to claim for his advice perpetual validity. * * * Wg 
need as never before a far-sighted, well-considered, and de- 
termined foreign policy." Conditions following the war may 
develop the necessity of making "hard and fast and compre- 
hensive alliances." 

Through unwarranted perversion of fact in these statements, 
The Tribune casts an unpardonable slur upon the prophetic and 
unimpeachable vision which impelled Washington to sound his 
warning to American posterity. Washington was keenly sensi- 
tive to the "perpetual validity" of his advice, for his purpose 
was to sound an everlasting warning to that posterity to which 
would be entrusted the fate of American destiny, but he must 
needs employ his contemporaries as the conveying agency for 
the transmission of his advice to posterity. 

A Prophetic Washington was a profound student of his- 

Vision. tory. In tracing the rise and fall of dynasties 

and nations, he noted that the downfall of the 
most of them had been accompHshed by weakening, because 
entangling, alliances which had been undertaken for the further- 
ance of imperialistic ambitions. Washington foresaw the time 
when the development of America's position as a world power 
would present the universal temptations of that imperial am- 
bition which seeks the impression of power and influence upon 
the world through measures militant. That future America 
might withstand the lure of these temptations, Washington 
sought to arm posterity with a permanent foreign policy, which 
would make our position as a world power impregnable. 

Washington foresaw the time when we would need, "as 
never before, a far-sighted, well-considered, and determined 
foreign policy," and he fortified us with just such a policy. 
Pray answer us this. Tribune, "eminently wise," if Washington, 
possessing an insight of wisdom which transcended that of any 
of our contemporaries as the sun's lighting of the earth 



AMERICA'S POSITION 15 

transcends that of the stars, erred, how are we to formulate a 
far-sighted, well-considered foreign policy? 

An Enduring The unalterable truth is that Washington be- 

Inheritance. queathed us a foreign policy which we never 

can improve. The value of our heritage is 
beyond computation. It only remains for us to champion the 
application of this policy with the determination of stout and 
steadfast hearts. 

In our dealing with foreign nations, let us be moved by 
motives which are actuated by an unselfish, pure and true, 
reverence for and loyalty to the inheritance bequeathed us by 
"The Father of His Country." 

No conditions, save those engendered by an insatiable, lusting 
greed for demonstrative power, will ever develop to necessitate 
the participation of our country in alliances seeking the advance- 
ment of our national interests. It is easier to think of tangle- 
foot flypaper without its tangle than to think of national alliances 
without their entangling snare. 

The Open Door No intelligent person would advocate, or even 
and Trespass. entertain the thought, that any condition of 

isolation in world affairs is possible on the 
part of our country. That this impossibility was apparent to 
Washington adds force to the weight of his advice. 

But, though isolation is an impossible condition for any 
active nation, there are two, diametrically opposed, methods by 
which a nation may exert its influence in its participation in 
world affairs. One is "the open door policy," playing the host 
to all the world. The other is "the trespass polic}^," invading 
the national precincts of the world. 

The success of the "melting-pot" in this country's absorption 
of immigrants is due to the example, and inspiration for imita- 
tion, which foreigners have received as guests in American 
homes. Congelation results when Americans invade the home 
privacy of foreign families to demonstrate the superiority of 
American ways of living. 



16 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

The exertion of American influence upon the politic body of 
foreign nations has more teUing effect where individuals of 
those nations receive their knowledge of American ways, and 
the inspiration to adopt them, by living amongst us, and then 
return to their native lands to spread and adapt American civi- , 
lization to their own people, whose mental, civic and spiritual 
processes and ambitions they sympathetically understand as no 
alien can. 

Our Dangerous Pursuit of the chimera of an America wield- 
World Policy. ing the influence of a world power through the 

operation of agencies, diplomatic and militant, 
which must be maintained far from the bases incubating Amer- 
ican ideals, will carry our nation far adrift and wreck the ship 
of state upon those shoals of destruction which have destroyed 
national existence from time immemorial. 

Our citizens should be established and protected in the right 
to visit, travel and study, and to trade, buy and sell with equita- 
ble dealing, in all foreign lands which maintain stable govern- 
ment. But it should be incorporated in the federal constitution 
that any American citizen who seeks his fortune in foreign coun- 
tries, through employment of citizens of such countries, has no 
claim upon this country for protection of life or property. 

If our country does not furnish a satisfactory home for any 
citizen thereof, such citizen should expatriate himself when he 
goes beyond its borders. If the United States has imposed upon 
any nation treaty conditions with the intent, or which operate, 
to guarantee safety of life and property to American citizens 
while they exploit the labor or resources of those countries, we 
have sown that from which, some day, we must reap a terrible 
harvest. 

"All America The bankers of Illinois, In convention at Joliet, 
Stands For." passed resolutions advocating that they be 

"prepared from every standpoint to show to 
the' world the efficiencies and social and political^ advantages of 
democratic government, and our ability and determination to 



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AMERICA'S POSITION 17 



preserve and defend this and all that America stands for against 
all internal and external forces to the contrary." 

The "ability and determination to preserve and defend all 
that America stands for" would be a very commendable declara- 
tion if one is quite sure that "all that America stands for" is 
comprised in ideals which are based upon the teaching of Jesus, 
and worthy of the strongest fealty, but the bitter fact is that 
the inspiring statement of American ideals by patriotic oratory 
is at variance with the cold, calculating ideals of practical , 
American politic life. 

The establishment of the solvent federal government of the 
United States was accomplished by submitting to the terms of 
financial power, and, in their unholy greed, the unpatriotic 
financial interests still exact their pounds of flesh of the American 
public. 

Able to Cham- The trend of my instruction concerning that 

pion New Ideals, for which America stands has been that 

America is the champion of new standards, 

heralding ideals untried and judged fallacious in the old world. 

The foundation and the hope of the success of the mission 
of America as the champion of these ideals, against all the 
nations of the world, lies in the vast resources of her geograph- 
ical situation, which will permit her to maintain and impress 
the righteousness of her ideals independent of diplomatic and 
commercial pressure from the political powers of the old world. 

America is in a position to demonstrate and effect the prac- 
tical application of the righteousness of the highest spiritual 
ideals as a workable factor in human affairs. America's posi- 
tion is unique. It assures her the ultimate opportunity pre- 
sented in all human progress down to the present, for, in all the 
world's history, Righteousness never has prevailed against the 
powers of Self-interest. All that ever has been gained by 
democracy has been attained, either directly or indirectly, as 
a bribe for its support of the cause of self-interests in conflict. 



18 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Inspiration of The question confronting America is: Shall 
Early Patriots. she continue to champion the ideals which in- 
spired her early patriots, or shall she succumb 
to old world ^thought, inspiration of American tories, past and 
present. 

Not the least of these ideals is the liberty of the American 
citizen to champion his personal judgment, with unlimited free- 
dom of thought and expression, without impairment of his 
American citizenship and without suspicion of his patriotism. 

The most effective way to demonstrate "to the world the 
efficiencies and social and political advantages of democratic 
government" will be to reassert these ideals in unmistakable 
terms and then defend them by vigorous and sustained action. 

Lessons Nations The French are learning that a war of re- 
Will Learn. venge does not pay, England must learn that, 
to exist, no continental people need acknowl- 
edge her suzerainty, Germany must learn that righteousness never 
will prevail through the force of arms, and our country must 
realize that if she does not accomplish the purposes of Almighty 
Providence, some other nation will. 

We hold no patent assuring us that the problems of the age 
are to await solution at the caprice of our will and in our own 
good time. If we do not arise to our glorious opportunity, any 
other nation is entitled to assume that prerogative, whether it 
be Germany, Russia or Japan. 



WAR AND PEACE 

War Short Cir- Mr. Patterson quotes Bernhardi as declaring 
cuits Ideas. that war is a biological necessity which makes 

for progress and says that, regardless of the 
political outcome of this war, the German idea is to win, for 
"war short circuits" the spread of the superior civic attainments 
of a people to its neighbors. In this, he has spoken truly. But 
when one claims that war is a biological necessity, his intellectual 
processes have not emerged above the levels of savagery. 

Let Patterson persuade a mighty intellect like Dr. Frank 
'Crane that war is in any way a thing to be desired for the 
well-being of this or any other nation and then he may claim 
respect for his present state of feeling. 

Bryan's Position. Bryan, the great advocate of Peace, is another 
proposition. It is the heart of Bryan, not 
his head, which gives him the right view of 
the demon War. Bryan thunders his mighty philippic, "Labor 
must not be crucified upon a cross of gold," yet he does not 
go to the bottom of the monetary dilemma and find that the 
curse on labor comes of the effort to attain the objects of civiU- 
zation with the tools of savagery. Gold or any other metal as 
the basic principle of domestic currency, in final analysis, is no 
advance upon the days of the savage. 

Little of our civilization is more than polished barbarism. 
Orthodox Christianity is largely alloyed with heathenism. Every 
concession of liberty granted to the peoples of Europe has 
been a pawn for popular support of the power of self-seeking 
individuals. Many times have these pawns been redeemed. What 
degree of popular freedom exists in Europe has been attained 
as a bribe offered for the strengthening of individual power. 

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20 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Short Circuits Though war "short circuits" the dominating 
Undesirable. points of excellence possessed by the peoples 

in conflict, war ever will retard and retrogress 
the advance of general civilization. The short circuit is no more 
to be desired in the currents politic than in the currents electric, 
and is as fraught with results disastrous in the former as in the 
latter. 

The demands which war makes upon the savage passions 
inherent in humanity never can be conducive to the general good. 
Born of the lust for power, war unleashes the savage instinct to 
plunder. Its labor stimulates the sex functions, inducing rape 
and promoting social impurity. 

Fruits of War At the opening of the war, a German whose 

Are Barren. parents came from the Fatherland, said : "All 

that Germany or any other nation gains from 
this war will not compensate for the loss of one life." A man 
with such a sentiment, though his personal life be dissolute, is 
more Christian than the ordained minister who can prattle about 
the spiritual compensations of war. 

The spiritual compensations claimed for war may be had 
in peace for a tithe of a tithe of their cost through war. Because 
the fruits of nobleness are plucked from war, we must not 
forget that these fruits are borne in greater and richer abundance 
by peace. War is the master of man, not his servant. War 
is ugly anyway it is looked upon. 

The frothings about this being a "war to end war" are the 
most inane that could be advanced in its defense. This war will 
engender a dozen enmities to every one eradicated. Stories of 
war's heroisms, told by the crippled veterans when time hangs 
heavy on their hands, to the delectation of listening children, 
will fascinate succeeding generations making the world suscep- 
tible to the thralldom of war for untold years to come. 

The Philosophy The current philosophy of hfe is this: What 

of War. has been and is must be for the best, or it 

would not be. It is this philosophy which 



WAR AND PEACE 21 

burdens the world with war. "They that take the sword, shall 
perish with the sword" was pronounced by One whose word 
will yet rule the world. 

Though great invasional movements of one people into 
the territories of other peoples are known to have occurred in 
the vague vistas of time preceding the dawn of history, the 
most acute militarism on record is that of Israel. The Israelites 
plundered the land of their captivity and escaped beyond the 
Red Sea to build a national spirit upon the plunder, the con- 
quest, the rape, and the extermination of prosperous peoples. 

Does Christianity study the history of the Jews as the foun- 
tain of their religion to the end that it may give commenda- 
tion to the program followed by Israel? or does it seek to learn 
and avoid the errors which were pitfalls for the destruction 
of Israel? Let all militarian nations consider the Jew and 
beware of his fate. 

The great error in the national consciousness of Germany 
has been the thought that German ideals could not survive and 
prevail without the support of arms. There never has been, nor 
ever will be, a permanent world power established by war. 

If the German idea has world power after the war its power 
can be maintained only through the realization on the part of 
the Germans that the mastery of their idea is due to its high 
ideal, not to the supremacy of the German arms. They must 
realize that right is the strongest might. After peace has been 
attained, an injudicious display of military strength will threaten 
the success of the beneficent influence which German culture 
will have the opportunity to wield throughout the world. 

Anti-German The condition of the modern Jew is due to 

Feeling Fanatical, the religious fanaticism of people calling 
themselves Christian. The fanaticism of re- 
ligion incited by Germany when she dropped diplomacy to gain 
the advantage of the first blow at arms threatens to vanquish 
Germany. 

Although the guilt of responsibility for the war rests no 
more heavily upon her than upon the other powers, in making 



22 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

the first overt move for war, Germany gave unpardonable offense 
to that great body of Christians who earnestly desire war's 
elimination as an agency in the settlement of the conflicts which 
arise, to the disturbance of the world's peace, from the frictions 
of human contact. 

For the moral position of Germany in the estimation of the 
world, it would have been better had she emulated a character 
in Dumas' "Twenty Years After," who, upon repeated occasions 
when he was in the position to take the life of one who was 
seeking his own life said, "Let Fate take her course." 

That, without recourse to war, the world might dispose of 
the causes of strife and attain an equitable foundation for 
universal and enduring peace constituted a hope dearly cherished 
by the Christian world, which cannot but resent the destruction 
of this delusion. That this resentment is developing an anti- 
German fanaticism as virile as that which has persecuted the 
Jew for the crucifixion of Christ is attested by signs too apparent 
to be ignored or mistaken. 

The Atrocities of The author has no thought of censure for 
War. the Germans in regard to atrocities, alleged 

or real, for war is war and, as between bel- 
ligerents, rules of warfare are impossible. 

Can we, with cool, intelligent, and impartial judgment, main- 
tain that the execution of a nurse for aiding and abetting the 
enemies of Germany, within territory under German administra- 
tion, in enterprises with designs to defeat the will of Germany, 
is one whit more inhuman than, the execution by our federal 
forces in the Civil War of tender boys of sixteen, whose only 
offense was their inability to withstand the fatigue of guard 
duty through the long hours of the night, and who were shot 
in dishonor for sleeping at their posts on picket duty? Even 
the great Lincoln, with breaking heart, had to concede the ex- 
pediency of such an outrageous policy, and I doubt not the 
sincerity and the heart ache of the Germans when they protest 
that they regret their conviction of the expediency of stern 
and cruel measures. 



WAR AND PEACE 23 

The trouble is that souls which are too small to grasp and 
.comprehend the unspeakable horror of the great massacre of 
war, because of this smallness of soul, are able to feel the in- 
humanities attending the side lights of war. Those souls which 
are great enough to comprehend the magnitude of the major 
horrors of war suffer such anguish of spirit that they are 
unaffected by the comparatively trivial incidents which are 
magnified in the limited vision of the pygmy. 

War Knows The only law concerning war which inter- 

No Law. national opinion can consistently and con- 

scientiously make or enforce is "There shall 
be no war." If its position as an agency for the settlement of 
international controversy is conceded to war, it must also be 
conceded that warfare is beyond the pale of all law. 

Any rules or regulations affecting the relations between 
neutrals and belligerents, formulated under the disguise of inter- 
national law, constitute the direst hypocrisy. Any recognition 
or concession of rights of belligerents within neutral precincts, 
which includes the right to trade with neutrals, constitutes the 
neutral an accessory to the crime of war. 

Germany Must We who have analyzed our early impressions 
Make Good. against the Germans and recognize the 'ele- 

ment of religious fanaticism which engendered 
our anti-German attitude will require that Germany prove worthy 
of the trust we now impose in her. We have set a high mark 
for German culture and German effort must strive to attain it. 
We are trusting that the claim of Germany that hers was a 
defensive militarism will be borne out by post bellum develop- 
ments. 

Germany must secure terms of peace which will make her 
national position so secure that she may dispense with her 
armed preparedness for defense. Continuance of the ante- 
bellum military policy of Germany will belie the claims of her 
peaceful intentions, and aggravate the handicap of reHgious 
fanaticism, which will destroy her if she fails to disarm the 



24 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

distrust and hatred of her. For the sake of those aliens who 
love her, Germany must make good as a champion and defender 
of universal peace. 

Security in Patterson says that it is to our advantage to • 

European Peace, keep alive the rivalries between the stronger 
European states. "If the European states could 
once finally agree on a permanent distribution of territory in 
Europe, then their intense military and diplomatic energies would 
necessarily seek outlet in other fields — for example. South and 
Central America." 

The author holds that if the European states could agree upon 
a system of interstate commerce and intermigration, their "in- 
tense military and diplomatic energies" would find ample outlet 
in the avenues of domestic pursuits. 

If America will sensibly leave the Asiatic and African fields 
to European development, which the Monroe Doctrine, if it 
means anything at all, implies that she shall, and turn her atten- 
tion to the Western Hemisphere, the old world will leave her 
in undisturbed peace. America cannot endeavor, with impunity, 
to hog the whole world. 

Shibboleth of The anxiety of American industrialism for 

Industry. the open door policy to new markets of the 

world is based upon the Yankee's desire for 
larger profits than those assured by equitable returns for the 
goods and services we have to market. The commercial field of 
South America is unattractive because the competition en- 
countered demands of us that we give full value received for 
all goods sold there. 

The shibboleth of American industry has been, "Exploit la- 
bor and raw material for all they will bear." The patriotic 
shibboleth is, "Give full value received, awarding labor a higher 
return than capital." 

If American industry would abandon its search for foreign 
markets and devote its attention to the American continent, it 
could increase the demands of the American market from 



WAR AND PEACE 25 

quadruple to ten-fold. When American capital and American 
commercial genius give their undivided attention to a patriotic 
development of American resources, what transpires in the rest 
of the world need give us no alarm. 

The Impregnable In the matter of preparedness for personal 
Position. or national self-defense, it is the man and 

the nation which is armed with indomitable 
courage, not he who totes the gun, who holds the more impreg- 
nable position. The horrible examples which Patterson and The 
Tribune dangle before us are nations which have been deficient 
in the qualities of character which make for courage, and gun- 
toting, the recourse of the coward, will make neither man or 
nation brave. 

Henry Ford, the greatest humanitarian in the history of in- 
dustrial capitalism, says that any idea which the human mind 
is capable of conceiving, the human intellect is capable of achiev- 
ing. If the mind and heart of America are able to conceive the 
impregnancy of its national position through its adherence to 
the peace principle, the intellect of America is capable of achiev- 
ing that impregnancy. 

I grant that there are other sides to the armament issue, 
but think not that I am not as fully cognizant of those other 
sides as any others are. That there are two sides to a question 
does not weaken the application of the side which best fits our 
position. 

The Forces No nation yet fell but her fall was accom- 

Which Destroy, plished by forces from within. It was the 
spy or traitor within her walls that accom- 
plished the downfall of Troy; it was the desertion of her 
slaves, who joined the invading hordes in plunder, that accom- 
plished the downfall of Rome ; it was the intrigues within her 
civil government that accomplished the downfall of Poland; 
it was the .dissension of American tories and the treason of 
Benedict Arnold which nearly accomplished the failure of the 
American Revolution, and it was the division of opinion as to 



26 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

policy in the British ministry that assured its success; and it 
was the Northern sympathizer with the Southern cause who 
caused the heavier burdens of the Civil War and cast question 
upon its outcome. 

If America falls it will be owing to the refusal of the arma- 
ment party to try to get a true idea of the clear conception and 
the courageous conviction of the Peace advocates. American 
greatness is founded upon its commitment to the principle of 
peace. America is irrevocably committed to Peace, and she 
must stand or fall by her loyalty to the Peace principle. Those 
who quake with fear for the safety of America can best serve 
America by doing their utmost to make the American Peace 
idea impregnable. 

The Excelsior We must needs have our tories today as we 
Ideal of America, had them in Revolutionary days, but I far 
rather die a patriot to American ideals than 
to seek preservation through desertion of them. 

The theory of evolution has instilled into some minds the 
idea that there are higher laws than those of national expe- 
diency. When the Great Force populated the heavens with count- 
less suns, fashioned the Earth from chaos, and spent eons of 
time in the evolution of the human being, I, who am a product 
of all this labor, rather than sacrifice God's work upon the altar 
of nationalism, shall render the homage and honor due God 
and preserve life until the forces which created me remove me 
from the stage of human progression. 



BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY 

Pleading Mr, Patterson says of America, "We shan't 

England's Cause, be strong as a nation until we're first beaten 
and maybe not then," and, "I don't think we 
will consent to understand (that the competitive system makes 
a weak nation) until we have been beaten in war, probably 
by either Germany or Japan," but, says he, I don't think that it 
would make any difference what anyone said (for words don't 
count in such cases), and so (he thinks) we are in for a beating, 
unless we "put the allies under obligation" "to protect us after 
the war from Germany's vengeance or Japan's ambition." 

He says that the English feel that they are being "black- 
mailed" for double prices for war materials purchased from 
us in time of need, therefore, "if our government (had) the 
will power and the intelligence" to do so, "Now is the oppor- 
tunity to drive a bargain with England for protection in the 
future against Germany and Japan." "We could offer Great 
Britain more" and cheaper ammunition and supplies, "or per- 
haps we could furnish the ammunition free from our government 
arsenals." 

But, "We shall proceed embittering the mighty German na- 
tion to irreconcilability and meanwhile placing the allies under 
no obligation to us whatsoever for protection after the war;" 
"we don't want to be at the tender mercies of an infuriated 
Germany blaming us for its defeat * * * go let us choose 
England on our side and, in the holy name of the Monroe Doc- 
trine, sit tight in our hemisphere and make more money." 

"I believe that there are valid reasons why we Americans 
should wish to see the Germans beaten, even to the extent 
perhaps of joining in the war against them." "Germany may 
possibly gain on land for two or three years to come and yet 
in the end, if history be prophetic, and it usually is, Germany 

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28 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

must succumb if England (can strangle her as she finally did) 
her other great challengers, Spain, Louis XIV. and Napoleon, 
with salt water." 

He thinks that for the welfare of America, England should 
remain mistress of the seas because for the past century "she has- 
been a fair and equitable and just suzerain of the salt waters," 
allowing all nations access to her shipping facilities "on equal 
terms with herself." 

Disrobing Justice. It was the intention of the author to open 
this dissertation upon the inadvisability of 
America forming an alliance with England, by reference to this 
era as the Age of Reason, but, since reading the quotations above, 
he hesitates to make any such allusion, for he is at a loss to 
know what must have become of Patterson's share. 

It seems that this is the age of the "Almighty Dollar" which 
must find voice through Patterson's pen. But Patterson's pen 
made an inadvertent, or hypocritical, slip and he rightly knocks 
"the plutocrats," of whom he is a peer as plute as any, with 
the accusation that with them "words don't count." 

Verily, words don't count: The financial plutocrats of our 
country will continue to hold their financial gain above every 
other consideration. They will continue to sacrifice their coun- 
try's good, the welfare of their fellow men and the last shred 
of the righteousness which robes Justice whenever their coun- 
try's need, the welfare of man or the claims of justice stand 
between them and financial gain. 

The Policy Finance waxes fat upon war. In our country 

Finance Dictates, it is conducting a vigorous, desperate propa- 
ganda for the national policy termed "the 
preparedness of armament," which will furnish it the machinery 
to defend its supremacy against the increasing power of De- 
mocracy. The inevitable, unescapable servility to which Euro- 
pean democracy, the common people^:— the non-militant populace, 
has been crushed by finance-supported militarism will be the 
fate of American democracy if it consents to adequate arma- 



BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY 29 

ment with universal military training and compulsory service. 
(Since writing the foregoing the author has conceived the 
notion that compulsory military training for all young men, 
with only voluntary service in time of war, is the best solu- 
tion of the enlistment phase of our national defense.) 

War Endangers The American Revolution gave great impetus 
Democracy. to democracy in Europe. Europe's present 

relapse under the autocratic power to make 
war, which the absolutism of Europe retained when making its 
concessions to constitutionalism, threatens the reaction of an 
impetus to the forces of anti-democracy which lurk within the 
American politic body. 

The great body of our American citizenship understands 
very well the principle that the competitive system makes a 
weak nation. The financial interests of our country withhold 
consent and defeat the adoption of a highly organized state 
of citizenship because they realize that it would mean an end 
to the exploitation of the producing classes of the population. 

The Guidance of Patterson's grammatical error in twice say- 
Reason, ing 'T don't think," faithfully photographs and 
portrays the actual condition of his mind in 
making the utterly senseless statements which form the premises 
upon which he bases his plea for an Anglo-American alliance. 

I will revert to my original purpose and say that our safety 
is assured by the fact that this is "The Age of Reason." When 
the French went to hysterical extremes in the Intemperate en- 
thusiasm of "their feverish desire that all human action be 
guided by reason, which blinded them to the reason inherent in 
the established order, they taught the world the great lesson 
that "there is reason in all things." This may assure us that 
America is in no danger from present or future invasional 
aggression upon the part of Germany, for that nation, aside 
from its hasty entrance into this war, is guided by reason. 

Though German hearts must be at present sore against us, 
and bitterly so, when the clouds of conflict are past, she is going 



30 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

to view our national policy during this war in the light of reason 
and give it just appraisal. Compared to that of England in the 
years of our Civil War, the German feeling usward today is 
that of affection. If we, as a people, lose the respect of Ger- 
many, it will be through our entertainment of such notions as 
those set forth by Patterson and The Tribune's ill-advised edi- 
torials imploring our participation in Anglo alliances. 

Public Does Its When Patterson suggests, when the very 
Own Thinking. cockles of his heart implore, that this country 
bargain with England for its future defense 
against Germany it is to laugh, though it impels the author to 
give expression to thoughts which go pounding through the 
conscious ego. Not that he entertains the notion that The 
Tribune's efforts will have any appreciable effect upon public 
opinion, for its pre-election efforts in the late Chicago mayoralty 
campaign are too fresh in memory, but because he feels that he 
will be voicing the sentiments which must be held by many who 
find their desire to protest rendered impotent through outraged 
sensibilities. 

All may find comfort in the truth of Patterson's statement 
that words don't count in such cases. Though the words of the 
wisest could not convince The Tribune of its error, ' neither 
will The Tribune's propaganda lead us into harm while our peo- 
ple persist in doing their own thinking: 

An English If the English feel that in their hour of need 

Boomerang. they are being "blackmailed" by high prices, 

we need but remind them that it is a Briton, 
John Stewart Mills, who instructed us in the art of the black- 
mail we practice, the inexorable law of Supply and Demand, This 
law of political economics which Mills elaborated into a science, 
has been a strong and ready weapon in the hands of the English, 
and they should not whine when it is turned against them. 

What contempt must they feel for us should we cringingly 
seek an alliance for our future protection. No doubt, as Pat- 
terson charges, we are rendering England the indispensable serv- 



BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY . 31 

ices of an ally, but, if we feel convicted of a violation of neu- 
trality, instead of requiring of England a surety bond that her 
"gratitude" will protect us after the war, we should see that Ger- 
many is given equal access to our resources. 

When any power, or group of powers, attempts to beat her, 
the strength of America will be manifested. Defeat may become 
a source of strength, but it is not an essential element in the 
establishment of strength. 

Superiority of Although I can see no possible hope of ever 
German Idea. exonerating Germany for firing the fuse of 

this war, although I am aware that Emperor 
Wilhelm is possessed of an obsession more dangerous than Na- 
poleon's, for it is quite unselfish, I am fully convinced that, in 
the contest between the essence of the English idea and the 
essence of the German idea, the best interests of the world and 
of humanity demand that the German idea win, and that the 
Germans continue to direct its fuller amplification. 

The English Idea vs. the German Idea may be stated in 
forms of varying expressiveness. The dominating consideration 
of the English idea is individual liberty, that of the German idea, 
social responsibility. 

Individualism in It would seem that the English use their ideal 
England. as a cloak under which to evade the respon- 

sibility of society to the individual. To them 
it matters not what fate befalls the individual. They are as indif- 
ferent to the starving population of London's slums as to the 
starving millions of famine swept India. 

A few years ago, an Iowa youth met in New York his 
fiancee, returning from the mission field in India. He sent her 
to India a happy, normal, robust maiden. From the shock of 
witnessing the perishing of the helpless, famine-stricken natives, 
she returned incurably insane. Can we imagine an English 
maiden so deeply affected? 

What has the individualism of England done for Ireland? 
What does the individualism of England do for the English 



32 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

houseman and footman? If he presume to betray so much as 
a trace of the suppressed humanity lurking within him, he may 
expect sharp and instant reprimand. In fact, the condition of 
English household servitude has produced a class whose humanity 
may be called in question. 

Social ResponsI- Though it may be "born of individualism by 
bility in Germany, pressure of population," the state socialism of 
Germany is inspired by the highest ideals of 
social responsibility. English legislation seeks the protection of 
society from the individual. Carried to its logical fruition, the 
German idea, though the Germans themselves may be yet un- 
conscious of it, will bring legislation for the protection of the 
individual from society. 

In his younger days, H. G. Wells was highly exercised con- 
cerning the mechanical transfiguration of man, and yet man's 
greatest hope must Iciy in a super organized society. The man 
who sinks consciousness in sound sleep, lives a day of clearer, 
richer consciousness than is possible without sleep. The man 
who sinks his personality for five or six hours a day iri an 
industrialism which facilitates his support may create for him- 
self a far higher individualism during the free hours remaining 
to him. 

Sapping The anxiety in some quarters that we become 

Patriotism. a dependency of Great Britain arouses a sus- 

picion that what England could not do in 
1775-1783, she is in a fair way to accompHsh through the mar- 
riage of Enghsh titles to American dollars. While American 
dollars are revamping the fortunes of dilapidated English es- 
tates, and American blood is carrying rich infusions of vitality 
into the veins of degenerate English families, it seems that the 
process is sapping the patriotism of Americans who are brought 
into intimate association with it. 



BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY 33 

Drastic Though England is fully justified in her posi- 

Measures. tion in this war and the ends of justice will 

be served if she triumphs in the present con- 
flict, England should be isolated. The world has outgrown the 
day when it recognized the right of any nation to impose its rule 
upon another. England has been the worst offender in this re- 
spect and if she is not defeated in this war the day will come 
when France and Russia will join Germany in freeing the world 
of English dominance. 

Her rule of the sea should count her nothing except that it 
provide her means of gathering food supplies to save her people 
from the fate of the peasantry of India, to which, in the face 
of her responsibility, she is so placidly indifferent. England's 
Achilles heel is the injustice of her cause, the inflexibility of her 
social and industrial caste and her history long perfidy in the 
treatment of both ally and vanquished foe. 

The Folly of Notwithstanding his denial, the tone of Pat- 

Alliance, ter son's articles betrays the agitation of doubt 

about the ability of England, mistress of the 
seas, to furnish him safe conduct on the S. S. Cymric. Ocean 
travel must be made safe, hence there budded a happy idea to 
make it so. Let the mighty British empire assume the role of 
defender of American liberty, and her flouted invincibility will 
take on reality. 

How in the sense of goodness can England defend two coun- 
tries when she is unable to defend one? What assurance have we 
that she would even attempt to do so? Rather than expose her 
battleships as convoys of her merchant ships, she has sacrificed 
the latter with their cargoes of humanity, including many neu- 
trals, that her battle squadrons may remain intact. 

It is all very good to assume that two countries defending one 
from, attack are more impregnable than one, but what is to 
insure the second country from attack? If our government has 
the "will and the intelHgence" to make the proposed bargain with 
Great Britain, our citizens are the pack of fools which Patter- 
son would have them be. We could do all that he suggests, even 
to furnishing cannon fodder for the guns of Albion's foes. 



34 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

We could bulldoze England into an alliance of "gratitude." 
We then could conscientiously fulfill our end of the bargain 
and allow England to repudiate hers at will. 

The advantages of a naval alliance with Great Britain, which 
cannot protect her own commerce, are too vague to be seen. 
They are opaque. She would have small show of protecting our 
extended coast against a persistent foe. 

The Strength of Germany's strength defies the world. Ameri- 
Germany. can strength also must possess the stamina to 

defy the world. If we are weak, for love of 
freedom and country, let us not confess it, but proceed to make 
our erstwhile boasted strength a reality. 

If we don't want to be at the tender mercy of an infuriated, 
defeated Germany, rather than concede her defeat, as does Pat- 
terson, with one flourish of his pen, why not ignore England's 
contempt of us, and do the chivalrous thing by allying ourselves 
with the weak? 

History holds no parallel to German efficiency upon which to 
base the prophetic conclusion that she must succumb to English 
marine supremacy. If such a conclusion is conceded, it must be 
admitted that Germany is fully justified in picking off British 
ships as fast as she can, and that without warning. Though Eng- 
land strangled her other challengers with salt water, this was 
before the day of the railroad. Every acre of ground wrested 
from her foes adds to the self-sustaining ability of Germany and 
her ally, Austria. 

English Policy. If England has allowed all nations freedom 
of her ports, canals, and fortified channels on 
terms of equality with herself, she has done so from the policy 
of necessity, not from any sense of fair play and justice. And 
a few doughty Americans on the little lakes of Erie and Cham- 
plain forced realization of this upon her. If she could have 
maintained her position while partial to her own ships, she 
would have done so. 

If she becomes mistress of the seas, Germany should favor 



BRITISH OR GERMAN SUPREMACY 35 

her own commerce, she would be guilty of suicidal negligence 
if she did not. Instead of harboring any fear of Germany as 
mistress of the seas, I pray for that eventuality. 

The Shame of If Patterson has any children the day will 
Toryism. come when his posterity, if it ever becomes 

Americanized, will blush with shame when it 
is confronted by the jelly-fish, patriotic intellectualism of their 
tory ancestor which permits him to make the shameful state- 
ment, "So let us choose England on our side, and in the holy 
name of the Monroe Doctrine, sit tight in our hemisphere and 
make more money." He claims that we are in a tight dilemma, 
he confesses that he is the mouthpiece of mammon, and he 
pictures the impossible situation of sitting tight at home while 
holding the position of a world ally. 

An Englishman never comprehends the true spirit of Amer- 
ican citizenship. It is a thing foreign to his every instinct. Hun- 
dreds of our German citizens better understand the fundamental 
principles of American government and the ramifications of its 
system of operation than do thousands of our native citizens. 

The Tutorship of The rich, unfathomable vitality of German 
Error. blood and German finance needs no interna- 

tional marriage compacts to bolster sacred but 
fallible traditions. 

Germany has made her mistake. Before his death, Bismarck 
saw this and regretted his responsibility for it. Conceding the 
higher order of her own, Germany wants to consider well the 
fate of Jewish militarism. 

Germany wants to learn that tact and poHcy are stronger 
forces than arms, that right is the strongest might. He who 
is in the right needs no defense from those who can comprehend 
the right. The danger from an enlightened people, I nearly 
made the mistake of saying "educated," is nil. It is the danger 
from a barbarian people that threatens serious consequences. 

Germany is learning more than she is teaching the world, 
so we shall have no occasion for fear from her when war ceases. 



36 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Our danger will lie in our falling into the error from which 
she emerges. When Germany evicts the evil spirits within her, 
do we wish to be the swine those spirits will seek to enter? 

The Opportunity If Germany wins this war, she will possess 
of Germany. the supreme opportunity of history. If she 

organizes a policing military policy seeking 
only the maintainance of the "status Teutonic," in peace and 
justice, threatening no further violation of the status quo, sup- 
pressing attacks against it without reprisals, she will receive 
unstinted homage from all the world, providing that she is as 
liberal in granting freedom of language as she has been in 
granting liberty to religion. 

It is highly desirable that Germany receive assurances from 
America of a free hand in the peace settlements ensuing from 
this war, as Germany is the only power capable of maintaining 
these settlements with sureties of permanence. 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 

Roosevelt To support his contention that America 

No Authority. should enter this war to assure the crushing 

of Germany, Mr. Patterson cites the anger 
and distrust of Roosevelt toward the Germans. Why anyone 
should consider Roosevelt an authority upon the merits of the 
world's case against Germany, or upon any other question which 
pertains to the promotion of American politic interests, is beyond 
the writer's comprehension. The live, down-to-the-minute stu- 
dent of American affairs , realizes that Roosevelt has about as 
sympathetic an insight into the conceptions governing the pres- 
ent day aspirations of the American people as has the mummy 
of Rameses II. 

This country found its seven-league boots when it revived 
from the hypnotic spell which stupefied its senses during the 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 37 

Roosevelt administrations and has taken wonderful strides for- 
ward in the diffused light of independent thinking which is 
permeating the entire body of American democracy. The Amer- 
ican populace feels all the sensations of a Rip Van Winkle 
reversed. Over night it has made a twenty-year advance in 
politic consciousness and it marvels that the material manifesta- 
tions of politic progress have not kept step with its extended 
vision. 

A Discarded Time was when thousands felt as Patterson 

Opinion. still does in saying, "Theodore Roosevelt, in 

my opinion, has more vision than any Ameri- 
can statesman since Lincoln." The author remembers the time 
when he trembled for the fate which should befall this country 
following the unseating of Roosevelt, but when he autocratically 
staged the nomination for his own election to the presidency, 
down to the minutest detail, it gave me a decided shock. The 
man who does not trust the will of the people to find expression 
is not to be trusted with the interests of the people. The body 
politic has ever been cursed through leadership. Alexander, 
Hannibal, Caeser, Napoleon, and Wilhelm all furnish conspicu- 
ous evidence to this effect. 

Leadership That Three years ago, in an extemporaneous out- 
Enslaves. > burst, the immature mind of the author de- 
livered itself of the following sentiment : 
"John R. Howard of Boston is reported to have said yester- 
day that the rural population 'is without leadership. The more 
energetic having moved to the cities, the residue presents a sort 
of level from which enterprise cannot be expected.' We want 
to say to Mr. Howard right here that he is mightily mistaken. 
If, in his superior wisdom, he will but come to Illinois and see 
things in their true light, he will find that there is much more to 
be expected from the rural districts than from the cities where 
such distorted notions as his are picked up. Most of the leader- 
ship of which he speaks leads only to the shackles of slavery 
of one form or another and our countrymen are too wise and 



38 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

wily to follow it. A citizenship that needs no marked leadership 
but is permeated by a wide diffusion of intelligence may not be 
spectacular, but it is ideal, and Howard will find it very force- 
ful, too, if he goes monkeying about the machinery too much." 
The ripening process of the progress of time but confirms the 
author's implicit faith in the validity of this declaration. 

.■*urer Democracy Patterson says : "You could prove to politi- 
Needed. cians that, as a method for city, state, county 

and park government, pure democracy has 
proved an impure failure." What he is driving at may be solved 
by conjecture, though the language he employs shows evidence 
of a befuddled brain that itself knows not what it means. 

We are beginning to realize that the success of democracy 
demands that a system be devised whereby democratic govern- 
ment may steadily progress to the closest approach to pure 
democracy. The evils of our present system are outgrowths 
of the delegation of power to representatives, who have shown 
an increasing tendency to exercise an autocratic power, not re- 
sponsive to the public will. Public officials are too prone to 
treat the individual citizen with an insulting air of contempt, 
and cater to their campaign backers at the expense of the 
conscientious discharge of duty, which bears in mind the wel- 
fare of every citizen, in keeping with the dictates of impartial 
justice. 

The Democratic The coming issue between the Democratic and 
Principle. Republican parties is to be along this very line. 

The Democratic party will be committed to 
the principle that democracy must be vouchsafed the fullest ex- 
pression and execution of its composite will. It will seek to dis- 
cover means whereby the will of each individual, whether of the 
majority or the minority, may exert at all times a continuous 
influence upon this composite will and thus share the privileges, 
responsibilities and beneficence of government. 

The success of democratic government demands that, whether 
in election contests one supported the loser or winner he feel 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 39 

under every executive administration as strong a conviction of 
responsibility, and exert as great an influence, for the success of 
popular government, established for the assurance of justice 
to all. 

The Republican The Republican party is committed to the 
Principle. policy of government by representation, in 

which democracy elects official representatives, 
legislative, executive, and judicial, clothed with power which is 
limited only by constitutional restrictions and the restraints of 
ambition for future success at the polls, a power otherwise as 
autocratic as that of the rulers of the constitutional monarchies 
of Europe. 

"Pure democracy" in American government is an anomaly, 
and therefore we cannot impugn its "impure failure." The near- 
est approach to it, the New England town-meeting, is more suc- 
cessful than the more impure forms of substitution for democ- 
racy, and as a workable plan for city government, has proven 
most successful in Brookline, Mass. The town-meeting plan of 
government may be adjusted to the needs of cities of all sizes 
and to eradicate the evils of our present systems. 

The evils of the various governments of democracy arise 
from the propensity of officials of all classes to impress their 
own will upon the public in lieu of remaining responsive to 
the composite will of the populace. 

The New Public No one needs ask upon which side those who 
Servant. prefer the position of public rule above that 

of public service will be aligned on this issue 
of the extension or restriction of democracy's power. 

Democracy awaits the service of an unique specie of public 
character, requiring designation by a new term, that of public 
leader being inseparably linked with public exploitation. These 
public servants must be paragons, wizards in all politic phe- 
nomena, able to generate and make available the vast, latent 
force of public opinion. They will be the electrical engineers 
of democracy, electrifiers of public will. 



40 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Black Sheep and The author has spoken of his own disillusion- 
a Rent Veil. ment in re the counterfeit greatness of Roose- 

velt. Public disillusionment came when Roose- 
velt refused to banquet with Lorimer in attendance. When he, 
who had used blacker sheep than Lorimer to carry his political 
grist to mill, assumed an attitude of holiness which stamped even 
the Christ a cohort of wickedness, the veil was rent, and they 
recovered their sight, who had been blind for years. 

Patterson believes "that Col. Roosevelt's visions spring rather 
from his subconscious than his conscious mind." What a glo- 
rious tribute to Roosevelt's subconscious ego ! It must have been 
an understanding of this marvelously working subconsciousness 
that converted Roosevelt into the ready tool of The Tribune. 

When a man prostitutes his individuality, through being a tool 
in the hands of those who have an axe to grind, whether in a 
just or an unjust cause, his personality loses its power as a posi- 
tive and creative force. He passes the zenith of his career. His 
life-star pales, and, by slow or fast degree, passes below the 
horizon of oblivion. 

The Bull Moose episode of a contributing editor to the "Out- 
look" gave the public a yet deeper inlook into the cavernous 
hollowness of this public character. The suing, under cir- 
cumstances in which the contentions of his case could not dis- 
prove the slanderous allegations which gave offense, of an 
obscure Michigan editor for damages for defamation of char- 
acter, enlarged the area and increased the clearness of public 
vision. 

The Contempt of Patterson ascribes the cause of Roosevelt's 
Jealousy. "anger and distrust toward Germany" to the 

violation of Belgian neutrality and the Lusi- 
tania. Roosevelt's anger and distrust toward Germany are the 
futile out-croppings of an insane jealousy which petty character 
feels toward those in whom it sees the superiority which it 
refuses to recognize. 

An incident related to the author by a fellow townsman may 
cast no little light upon Roosevelt's contempt for and estimate 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 4\ 

ot German culture. This incident was cited as proof that Roos^^ 
veit is the "biggest" man in the world. • Poor Roosevelt himself 
is fast furnishing proof that he is the smallest man in th^ 
world. The incident : 

During Roosevelt's triumphant tour of Europe following hi^ 
African sojourn, he met Kaiser Wilhelm at a review of GeK 
man troops. Both were mounted. The Kaiser dismounted anv. 
shook hands with the mounted Roosevelt. The Kaiser woult» 
have done this for no other man on earth. Hence, RooseveK 
must be the world's greatest. 

Granting the accuracy of this incident, one who has kep\ 
his soul unmired by the spirit of servility can readily see that 
the action of Wilhelm would incite contempt in Roosevelt foi 
this self-abasement on the part of one who would have con- 
ceded much to meet him as a peer, A high esteem for- others 
is reared not upon their self-abasement. 

The Balance of Patterson says : "Roosevelt has been right 
Probability. so much oftener than he has been wrong in 

his visions that the balance of probabilit)/ 
would seem to be that he is right" in his estimate of the Ger- 
mans. This assumption o-f correctness of vision is a shot far 
wide of the bull's eye of truth. 

Roosevelt's visions ever have been those of an uncontrolled 
and unchecked impetuosity. The testimony of one of Chicago's 
prominent citizens, a broker, bank director and president of an 
industrial corporation, is that he has jumped at conclusions and 
taken executive action upon one-sided information. 

No man can be right in a majority of his decisions when 
it is not his rule to investigate and consider each and every side 
of a problem, proposition or situation. So let us check up some 
of Roosevelt's administrative acts to which Patterson ascribes 
the insight of true vision. 

The Bruvery of "He saw the need of national defense and 
Roosevelt. that it does not take two to make an inter- 

national quarrel." Like those who feel the 
need of carrying pocket arrns, those who feel the need of national 



42 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

defense by arms, possess a cowardly spirit. The highest form 
of bravery is the moral type, which is more effectual in estopping 
physical attack than is an egotistical sense of physical power, 
which passes for bravery, a thing it is not. 

Roosevelt will brave the assassin's bullet and the elemental 
forces of beast and nature. But he could not brave the stress 
of awaiting the death of the martyred president he was to suc- 
ceed; he could not brave the possibility of defeat in the 1904 
campaign; he could not brave the penalties of his indiscretions 
in speech and action as president, so sacrificed alike the honor of 
men and women and called them liars in toto; he could not 
brave — there is no indication that he even considered — a test of 
power with Wall Street in the 1907 panic; he cannot brave the 
situation of a public spectator who must stand by to leave 
contestants in conflict unmolested to demonstrate their respective 
power; and, for the security of personal and national safety, he 
cannot brave the restraint of curbing an irresponsible impetu- 
osity of temper. He can neither leave the beehive alone or brave 
the stings from disturbing it. 

Two Deals in "He saw the need of the Panama strip and 

Panama. took it." Yes, and since Colombia was help- 

less in the matter of the canal strip, Roosevelt 
could see no necessity, of paying her price, though he could pay 
the French promoters and their assigns $40,000,000 for their 
practically forfeited, if not abandoned, canal rights, without 
question or quibble as to a ten-million-dollar fee for negotiation 
of the deal. A cold ten million might have been saved there. 

The Mexican "No one doubts what he would have done in 

Farce. Mexico before that unhappy nation had re- 

verted into chaos." No, indeed ! • The instiga- 
tors of the Mexican propaganda were inspired by the knowledge 
that they could bank on the utility of Roosevelt as a tool for 
the furtherance of their purpose to exploit the people and 
resources of Mexico. 

The Mexican agitation is the second greatest farce of recent 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 43 

times. Mr. Melville Stone, representative of the Associated 
Press, was apprised by a member of the faculty of an Illinois 
college, shortly after the Associated Press lent itself to the 
purposes of those who engineered the inauguration of the Mex- 
ican propaganda, that the reports of clashes of arms between 
civic factions of Mexico were pure fabrications ; said professor 
was in vicinities where fighting was reported when all was 
serene and quiet. 

Mr. Stone told his informant to write up this statement 
of the situation and the Associated Press would run it over his 
signature. The man was shrewd enough to know that his word 
would carry no weight and the Associated Press cared not enough 
to send out reliable, disinterested investigators to verify the 
dispatches it published. 

The position and plan of operation of the Associated Press 
constitute of it a menance to American institutions. It issues 
to the press much material which has not been subjected to 
severe tests for authority and responsibility, and its machinery 
can be used to further the propaganda of strong interests which 
seek not the public weal. 

It So It so happened that during the week which 

Happened. was chosen for the debut of the Mexican agi- 

tation, a war flamed forth in Europe, and that 
held the attention of the independent press to the extent that it 
did not send its own representatives into the Mexican field. 

Diaz was bluffed into resigning by American citizens who 
desired to make this country's government a tool for the advance- 
ment of their private interests. It took us eight years to win 
our independence of England, and another eight years to establish 
a stable government. If we were sixteen years in solving the 
problem of federal rule, ought not we to have more patience 
with the Mexicans? 

The Trust "He saw the need of recognizing and regu- 

Tragedian. lating the trusts (not 'busting' them, the futile 

policy of his two successors)." Again Pat- 
terson shows the infantile calibre of his intellectual processes. 



44 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

It is a howling shame that Patterson could not have let the 
people in on the secret at the time. Teddy was yelling himself 
hoarse as counsel for the plaintiff in the case of "People vs. 
Trusts," and those court actions of the succeeding administrations 
which Patterson laments were entered under Teddy's regime. 

Of course, it is a national calamity that Taft and Wilson were 
so stupid as to believe that their oath of office obligated them 
to continue, to their logical conclusions, these actions in court 
instituted with brass band accompaniments by Teddy the Terrible 
Trust Tragedian. Roosevelt was for busting all the trusts, even 
to "In God We Trust" on the national currency. In those 
days the very word was a thorn in his flesh. 

The time is too recent for Mr. Patterson's purpose of writing 
into the Roosevelt administration sentiments to which Roosevelt 
gave public expression only since his sojourn in Africa, where 
the beasts of the jungle gave him a clearer perception of the trust 
proposition. 

A Suspicious A certain matter has amazingly mystified the 

Hunting Trip. author concerning the vision of both Roose- 
velt and the dear public, which watched his 
antics like gawking jays, since the time when Teddy abdicated 
the presidency for a two-weeks' bear hunt in the cane brakes of 
Louisiana, and a certain panic ravaged our country for ten days 
before Roosevelt emerged to save us by his action in the noto- 
rious Tennessee Coal and Iron Company case. 

The press issued information to the effect that Roosevelt's 
party had buried itself so deeply within the wilderness of the 
Louisiana cane brakes that no word from the outside world 
could reach him. However, to allay the fears of the solicitious, 
it was stated that, should anything befall Teddy, couriers of his 
party could reach civilization that it might succor him in his hour 
of need. 

Three or four days following the disappearance of Roose- 
velt's coat-tails, the Wall Street lion made a roar which struck 
terror to the nation's heart, but the mighty hunter heard it not. 
The full two weeks of his itinerary elapsed before Roosevelt 



ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE 45 

emerged to dispose of the carcass of Wall Street's victim by, 
according to his own testimony, assenting to the violation of 
the law which he was under oath to uphold and enforce. 

Sagacity not Leaving aside any suspicion of collusion in the 

Expected. matter, it would seem that for a president to 

desert his country, to renounce his oath of 
office for two weeks, is an act of treason, and the perpetrator 
thereof a traitor. The constitution of the United States per- 
mits a lot of treasonable negligence in office and much offense 
to pass unrebuked and unpunished. 

Granting that extenuating considerations may be advanced in 
defense of this charge, it would seem well in future to elect to 
the presidency men who are well able to withstand the strain of 
the tenure of office for the full period to which they are elected. 

Of course, Wall Street, earlier in the year, having twice 
threatened the federal government with financial panics, their 
bluff each time being called by Secretary Cortelyou and the big 
stick, it is not to be expected that Roosevelt, self-styled a prac- 
tical man, should be sagacious enough to foresee that a third 
effort might be made, when Cortelyou, minus the big stick, would 
be less effective against the onslaught of panic. 

A Cloud of An understanding which is unstunted by the 

Mystery. hero-worshiping instinct can comprehend the 

phenomenon as thus far recited, but here is 
where some of us confess ourselves baffled. None of Roosevelt's 
political enemies have ever hinted, in a way that received gen- 
eral circulation, any suspicion or question of Roosevelt's patri- 
otic conduct of the presidential office. 

So far as our knowledge goes, no censure has ever been 
breathed against him for abdicating that supreme office for two 
weeks, in the manner and fashion publicly proclaimed at the 
time of said, after a manner of speaking, malfeasance in office. 
Can it be that those who charge that our government knows no 
party are not in error? 

The fate of Roosevelt need concern no one, for the law of 



46 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

compensation is fast overtaking him. The great Achilles was 
vulnerable only in one heel, his heels are the only points in 
which Roosevelt is not vulnerable. But the possibility that some 
future occupant of the president's chair may feel that he can 
neglect with impunity the duties of his great ofEce should much 
concern those whose patriotism is unimpeachable. 

Hail! The Patterson discounts the validity of Roosevelt's 

Moon-Minded! reasons for his intense anti-German feeling 
and imagines "that the singularly active sub- 
conscious mind of Col. Roosevelt has convinced him that Ger- 
many should not win," and concedes that this conclusion is 
correct. 

Wilson may have a one track mind, but Roosevelt has a 
moon-illumined judgment, lighted upon one side only, and from 
sources which realize that their purposes are better furthered 
when their light shines from the reflecting surface of an intellect 
one side of which is never illumined. All hail ! Roosevelt ! the 
moon-minded ! 

Let us conclude in the words, but not the sense of Patterson, 
when he says, "when Theodore Roosevelt, with full vigor, deliv- 
ers invective against the Germans and prays for their defeat, it 
should give every thoughtful and patriotic American pause, no 
matter what his blood." 

Yes, with the criterion of such an authority, let us pause and 
consider well the righteousness, and the desirability of the tri- 
umph, of the German cause. 



FRENCH VS. GERMAN BIRTH RATE 

To the Gaiety of As Mr. Patterson acknowledges that he may 
Nations. not have said the last word pertaining to birth 

rates, the author will add his bit to the gaiety 
of nations, Patterson says : "France must cease to sin against 
herself. She m.ust allow her population to increase." "The Ger- 
man people are not entirely without the means and the will to 
prevent birth." 

He ascribes the decline of birth rate to "complexity of civili- 
zation, density of population, and religious or other idealistic 
feelings." "Nature (apparently) can spend itself either in pro- 
ducing one highly developed white American, Frenchman, or 
German, or equally in producing two or three negroes, Russian 
peasants or Sicilians." 

Universal Patterson labors under the universal delusion 

Misconception. that artificial measures of birth repression ac- 
count for the vagaries in national birth rates. 
Industrial government, not political, affects and regulates birth 
rates. He seems utterly ignorant of the aims of evolution in 
producing the prolonged infancy of human progeny. 

Christ said : "I came that they might have life and that they 
might have it more abundantly," and the truth is that the supreme 
purpose of life is to live, not propagate. When the individual is 
unable to enjoy the full measure o'f life, the purposes of life are 
defeated. Those people who live most propagate less not be- 
cause they pervert the sexual function, but because the immuta- 
ble laws governing human propagation lessen their sexual 
appetites. 

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48 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

The Law of A people who work long hours, and those who 

Regulation. endure a monotonous, pleasureless, drab ex- 

istence, have fruitful loins because nature 
seeks to increase the number of workers, thus giving more time 
for living. Functioning of the sexual organs endows the worker ' 
with greater power for labor, thus is he enabled to provide for 
the infancy of the developing worker who is to share his burdens. 
A student of the science of biology states that had the ports 
of America been closed to immigration in 1789, when our federal 
government was established, the population of our country would 
be as great as it is today, all descendent from Revolutionary 
stock. 

The Law of Those who play much as unconsciously lead 

Social Purity. lives of social purity as they walk erect. The 

vivacious boy or girl is immune from social 
impurity, for when animal spirits find expression in wholesome 
play, they are not seeking outlet in sex functioning. Concisely 
put, healthy exercise of the play instinct suspends the genital 
operation of sex organism. 

When women devote their thought and effort to provide hus- 
bands with the indispensable recreation of play, they will cease 
to have unwilling motherhood forced upon them. The romantic 
married couple are happiest because the play instinct subjugates 
the conjugal desire. 

The reason that marriage is proverbially a failure in America 
is that the hard working man, having strong sex appetites, has a 
wife whose sex desire lies dormant through idleness. In Ger- 
many both men and women are steady workers. The control 
of sex law induces both to prolificacy and large', happy families 
result. 

In France the spirit of play and romance in an intellectual 
and spiritual atmosphere reduce the sex desire and small, but 
equally happy, families result. Another factor in the disparity 
of birth rate is that the German spends much of his recreational 
leisure in beer drinking, which increases sex appetite. The 
French drink wine, which stimulates the spirit, but not the sexual 
nature. 



FRENCH VS. GERMAN BIRTH RATE 49 

When sex law is rightly understood, all the problems of 
social purity, of marital felicity, and race propagation will as 
naturally solve themselves as a drink of water solves the prob- 
lem of thirst. Then the world may forget all the hideous night- 
mare which induces the suggestion of such remedies as are pro- 
posed by the present day, self-appointed redeemers of the race. 
The only artificial means a woman has any moral, spiritual or 
physical right to employ for repression of the race stock is that 
of cleanliness, an internal bath, promptly administered, being 
the best and the only harmless preventative available. 

Source of Patterson says that France's ideal has been 

Free Thinking. "keep the money," and "that is even lower 
than ours (get the money), because less ad- 
venturous, less daring." Since Patterson never has known the 
necessity of economy, either stringent or relative, he is in very 
bad taste in his criticism of French character which "keeps the 
money." 

For centuries before France became even a promise of the 
nation she has become, her fair land was the battle field of ever 
contending forces and the Britons were as often the offenders 
as were the native barons, France being the only country which 
succeeded in throwing off the British yoke. 

This incessant warfare kept the country in chronic impoverish- 
ment. Is it any wonder that the people learned to save? And 
what the use of saving more than a pitiful competence when 
more would attract the spoliation of England? The lessons of 
bitter experience taught the French that only the riches of mental 
attainments were safe from the spoiler, and thus came the free 
thinking of France. 

Patterson Slurs Mr. Patterson does injustice to the French 
Thrift. when he slurringly refers to their saving 

thrift. The French trait of saving was so 
strong in the nature of the author, after four centuries of other 
blood infusions, that when he became a wage earner at nine 
years of age, his only thought was to save. It never occurred 



50 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

to him that money was for spending, it was for saving against 
a future need. When his mother made the cruel accusation that 
this passion for saving was evidence of selfishness, she destroyed 
an inheritance which provides a bulwark against anxiety and 
want, a foundation for self-respect and influence. Perchance 
this loss prepared the way for greater attainments, though ever 
since his has been the poor man's burden. 

The French have learned to live. They have learned to be 
exceedingly rich with little. It is they who can inhabit a palace 
with all the grace and ease of one to the manor born and 
possess the power to feel ecstasy of spirit and indescribable peace 
of soul within a hovel. In this attitude toward material things, 
the most adept description of French character is emboided in 
the word sangfroid. All the Frenchman asks of the world is 
freedom of mind. He will adapt himself to any situation except 
that of mental suzerainty. He will acknowledge no spiritual 
master. 

Treason of Patterson says: "Perhaps France may be 

France to Her again a first power in Europe and the world." 
Traditions. "In 1914 France could not hope to face Ger- 

many without allies." Were it not for the 
French ambition to redeem Alsace-Lorraine, she would not have 
become the ally of England. Though they may not have had 
the bitter thirst which has been theirs since Sedan, it is stated 
that, owing to Waterloo, the French had a gnawing hunger 
for revenge on Germany back in the sixties. 

If there was soreness against Germany for Waterloo, why not 
intense bitterness against England for her share in Waterloo. 
We later generations of Americans have been taught that Wel- 
lington was the nemesis of Napoleon. And England, which had 
furnished asylum for so many fugitives, refused to harbor Na- 
poleon in his last desperate effort to escape the desolation of 
banishment. If England feared the magic power of a hope- 
lessly crushed Napoleon, she ought today to cringe at the mere 
mention of his name. 

The French were treasonable to their own traditions when 
they allied with Britain to obtain revenge for Alsace-Lorraine. 



FRENCH VS. GERMAN BIRTH RATE 51 

Their eyes have been opened and they realize that they are pay- 
ing the penalty for an alliance to which they were forced to abide 
by threat of English bombardment. The author predicts that 
they will free themselves of this alliance at the first opportunity. 

Treason of The Germans were treasonable to their own in- 

Germany to Her terests when they wrested Alsace-Lorraine 
Interests. from France, not that they wanted it for the 

Fatherland, but for the strategical purpose of 
bringing Paris nearer the frontier. The author fancies that Ger- 
many would not be adverse to ceding Alsace-Lorraine to the 
French if they would make Strassburg the capital of France. 
Germany might better have taken another billion of indemnity 
in 1871 and left Alsace-Lorraine alone. He believes the mag- 
nanimity of this would have settled the Franco-Prussian prob- 
lem for all time. 

Heritage of Though a river is nature's provision for 

French Blood. national boundaries, since Alsace-Lorraine has 

been so completely Germanized in language, 
the interests of humanity will be served best by leaving the 
province in the German empire. 

The heartache which the French of Alsace-Lorraine feel be- 
cause their children have the language forced upon them may 
be assuaged by the thought that their French blood is an heritage 
nothing can destroy. The author, with the heritage of French 
blood, would rather pass his life in a dismal dungeon than live 
sumptuously under any other ancestry. 

The author has known people who were highly indignant if 
a language they did not know was spoken in their presence and 
would insist upon the use of theirs. Yet, for himself, he never 
felt that any offense was intended, being content with the thought 
that the desire to converse with him would force recourse to his 
tongue, the good old English language. 

Compulsion of It would be well for the Germans, and all 

Language. others, to be more tactful in the matter of 

language. The world cannot be Anglicized, 

Germanized, Russianized, or Japanned through the compulsion of 



52 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

language. If we wish to impress our culture upon any people, 
our designs will be facilitated by our acquirement of their 
language. 

The German schoolmaster would be just as efficacious an in- 
structor of German culture in Alsace-Lorraine if he employed the 
French language. The populace would feel more content and 
might learn to give Germany the allegiance which it is forced 
to profess. 

A German scholar and proficient linguist when asked which 
language his mind employed in his literary and intellectual work 
replied : "I first do my composing in French, then translate into 
German." 



The Glory of "A victory of 1914-1916 might restore to 

France. France its old proud dreams of glory, splendor, 

pride, and adventure." This is a consumma- 
tion not to be desired. It is best that France be content to put 
aside all dreams of colonization or conquest. 

The French will do better to be happy in the thought that 
their sunny countryside furnishes inspiration for the incubation 
of advanced world-thought. The glory of France is to be in her 
leadership in democracy's progress. As Paris has lead and 
ruled the world of fashion, so may France take her place at the 
head of democracy's legions, the standard bearer of democratic 
freedom. 

The national pride of France in her Napoleon is best vested 
in his pioneer faith and trust that national solidarity is secure 
with the personal freedom of universal emancipation. France 
taught Germany the value of national solidarity and she may 
continue to teach Germany and all the world advanced philosophy 
in all that pertains to human affairs. 

The Pride of Patterson concedes the following : "Germans 

Germany. implicitly believe that they are the greatest 

people of this or any other age. And in many 
respects, I think they are right about it." "In 1914 Germany 
was still drunk on the wine of 1870. (It had not lost its allu- 



FRENCH VS. GERMAN BIRTH RATE 53 

sions.) It may sober up on the bitter waters of 1916." 

Germany's national pride is the most glorious thing the world 
has ever seen. It is to be devoutly hoped that she will not sober 
up on any bitter waters of 1916. 

The prettiest thing in all history is the tribute paid to the 
Goths by one historian when he mentions that the fair-haired 
barbarians who overran Rome honored their women with treat- 
ment of the highest respect and deference. And among the 
national saints of all history, there is no peer to Queen Louisa. 

A German The author cherishes a picture which he wishes 

Picture. to reproduce in the language with which he 

originally framed it. "We overheard a few 
words by a man (a German) who, in the presence of a woman, 
was talking to a couple of girls. Nothing has touched our hearts 
so much for several days. It is such things as this, which reach 
our hearts, that make our world progress toward its ultimate 
goal, the throne of God. Tf you can keep your good name, 
you can have everything in the world, but if you lose your good 
name, everything is lost, home and friends and all.' This eternal 
truth could not be better expressed. The girls are of an age 
at which some conduct of theirs might have endangered their 
reputation. Whether the man or the woman was a parent of 
the girls matters not. What appeals to us is the nobleness of 
one of our plain, unpretentious citizens in his attempt to point 
out to these girls, entering that strange, unknown land of woman- 
hood, the way to make their future happy and secure instead of 
allowing them to take the way to disgrace and despair without 
the warning he could give." 

Pictures of Place against this the English picture of the 

Shame. imprisonment of W. T. Stead for exposures 

showing the personal connection of members 
of Parliament with the traffic of commercialized prostitution. 

Another frame, with face turned to the wall, hangs in the 
galleries of our mind. Turn it around and we see the picture of 
The Tribune's editors in lamentation, weeping with gnashing 



54 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

of teeth and tearing of hair, because the Mann Act interferes 
with the libertine propensities of the rich. 

Why should the rich be more entitled to immunity in break- 
ing the codes of moral law through purchase than the poverty 
of the poor should entitle them to immunity in the sale of virtue? 
The Tribune's plea is for one code of moral, statutes for the rich 
and another for the poor. 

Since the rich fat-head lacks the moral protection of sense 
and soberness, The Tribune would protect him from the schemes 
of the designing amouress. So long as Youth is taught to emu- 
late the rich as models for business success, it also should be 
insisted that the rich be safe patterns in matters of morality. 

Our Sympathy America must resist any and all attempts of 
And Good Will, any empire, German as well as others, to 
extend its suzerainty over any part of the 
Western Hemisphere, but there is no occasion why we should not 
desire to see Germany triumph over England, the enemy of free- 
dom, and let her feel during her hour of trial, when she must 
contend with internal imperfections while fighting her external 
foes, that she has our sympathy and good will. 



ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 

Injury Added to Mr. Patterson has outraged every sense ol 
Insult. good taste and judgment in the smashing of 

American neutrality by fouler tactics than were 
ever resorted to in "the roped square," to support his contention 
that it is irrefutably to the interest of America that she join 
forces with England to defeat Germany and escape Germany's 
ensuing wrath, he adds injury to insult by presuming to name 
settlements in the European controversies which will continue 
the nations of Europe in a chronic condition of strife, claiming 
this to be to our national advantage. 



ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 55 

There is no gainsaying that the terms of peace he suggests 
would accompUsh the end he desires, but that our national or 
any other advantage would be promoted thereby is a point on 
which we take issue. Under "War and Peace" we questioned the 
necessity of America becoming involved in war and in the 
subject following this we will endeavor to show that the forces 
which produce war are not to be annihilated but be made to 
promote, secure and maintain peace. 

Patterson's "From our national point of view, the most 

Peace Terms advantageous settlement after the great war 

Reversed. appears to be along some such lines as the 

following:", for such arrangements would 
strongly induce a permanent understanding whereby the Euro- 
pean countries could work out their problems through agencies 
of peace. 

One. (Perhaps not most important.) A free hand for Japan 
in all Asia lying east of the Ural mountains and north and east 
of India, 

Two. Abolition, by any combination of forces not impairing 
the application of the Monroe Doctrine to the Western Hemi- 
sphere, of England's mastery of the seas. 

Three. Incorporation, as a sovereign state, of Belgium into 
the German Empire. 

Four. The retention of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany. 

Five. Settlement of the Polish problem as seems best in the 
judgment of Germany. 

Six. The banishment of the Turk from Europe. For once 
Patterson is right. 

Seven. Formation of the United Balkan States, either a la 
German Empire or a la United States of America. Separation 
of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, giving each its own 
crown or ruler. 

Eight. Adoption of a Mexican Monroe Doctrine that Mexico 
may be allowed to work out its own salvation. 

With two exceptions, these "arrangements" are in direct op- 
osition to those advanced by Mr. Patterson. The author adds : 



56 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Nine. No war indemnity shall be imposed upon any of the 
warring nations. 

Monroe Doctrine (Two.) We feel considerable curiosity as to 
of the Seas. the time since the British empire has been one 

of the two great North American powers as 
claimed by Patterson. In any event, not since 1865. It surely was 
most considerate of the English to originate the Monroe doctrine 
and donate it ready made to Monroe. Yet the author doubts not 
the correctness of the accusation. 

The great, world-domineering civilizations of history have been 
Grecian, Roman, and English. Of these three, the last, through 
astute measures, has been the most persistent and relentless in the 
subjugation of its subject peoples. Whether the coming world- 
power civilization is to be German, Russian, or Japanese remains 
to be seen, since humanity refuses to co-operate in the interest of 
universal democracy. If Germany adopted the English language, 
the author would prophesy world dominance for her cultural civil- 
ization. 

But there is no room for doubt in his mind that our nation 
should join, to the limit, in freeing the seas of England's mastery. 
Whatever salt water supremacy may succeed hers, it never can 
become as absolute as the English has been. 

Give America the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and a 
twenty-five mile ocean zone about the Western Hemisphere and 
she need not care who rules the waves. Let Japan have the 
Pacific, England the Atlantic, and Germany the Mediterranian and 
Indian and we may sit contently and securely "tight" at home and 
mind our own business unmolested by all the world. 

Artificial (Three.) If the Germans can hold Antwerp, 

Nationality. as a commercial and a military "pistol leveled 

upon England," she will render the world a 
service beyond all price. That France, as stated by Patterson, 
first proposed to receive the fruits of violation of Belgium's neu- 
trality by accession of her territory, nullifies any claim the French 
may have had to Belgium. 



ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 57 

It may be conceded that Belgium is an artificial nation, her 
national existence has been an artifice to checkmate international 
jealousies and hates, but that Great Britain holds an artificial 
empire is without question. Artificial members (units of terri- 
tory) are attached to nearly all the nations and empires of 
Europe. The fact that Belgium is not guaranteed safety as a 
sovereign nation is good reason why she should join the German 
Empire, the only European power in which she will find protec- 
tion. 



Roosevelt and In the January 1915 Everybody's, Roosevelt 
Honor. vents his spleen against President Wilson and 

the pacifists by exorcising our country for its 
lack of honor in that we did not fly to the rescue of fortified 
Belgium. National honor is a chimera. "There ain't no sich 
animule." We are honest when it is to our interest to be- honest. 

If we have the good sense to see that it is ever to our interest 
to be honest, we always are honest. Nations stand upon honor 
only when it serves their purpose to be honorable. If nations had 
the sense to realize that honor ought not to be a consideration in 
diplomatic and national councils, honor never would cloak dis- 
honorable motives. 

The danger in honor is that it is not reducible to a permanent 
and equitable standard for the government of action under all 
circumstances which may arise. Roosevelt rants about our 
country's dishonor in that she did not champion Belgium's cause. 
Yet, can he claim that Germany's expediency is any less honorable 
than Roosevelt's expediency in seizing the canal strip ? 

Roosevelt's commendable charge that America should declare 
for the right of any people to a national existence, free of suzer- 
ainties, would be more consistent, though not a whit less pre- 
sumptuous, if he took the nation to account for failing to 
champion the cause of the Boers, and criticized the Nation's show 
of ingratitude to France in her hour of need over a century ago, 
following her aid, which was solicited by Franklin as represen- 
tative of the colonies, to American independence. 



58 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Belgium Chose Any people, numerous or numerically small, 
Her Fate. are entitled to national independence if they 

are strong enough to assert and enforce that 
independence. If they are unable to effect national solidarity, 
they are unfit for national independence for they cannot maintain 
internal order. 

From the first, the author has been unable to feel much sym- 
pathy for the fate which has befallen Belgium. All the hysteria 
about the glorious defense of her national honor, which must be 
rewarded by continued national existence, is useless for it is 
wide of the mark. Belgium made her bed where she chose and 
now she must lie in it. If she regains her independence, it will 
be through her own effort, for the nations of Europe will have 
too much trouble of their own to care what happens to her. 

Sensible All the neutrality stuff that has been current 

Neutrality. since the invasion of Belgium is beyond us. 

Our idea of neutrality has been that Belgium, 
holding the position of a buffer state, and the inevitable battle- 
field of France, England and Germany was given guarantee 
that, provided her people refrained from participation in these 
contests, her territory would not be considered a prize of war. 
Since the law of self-preservation neither can be ignored nor 
suspended, how shall a small, exposed nation prevent the hordes 
of a large nation from overrunning her land? 

In denying the German troops unimpeded transport through 
her territory, apparently Belgium made a grievous mistake, but 
she knew the stakes for which she was playing, and, if she 
thought them worth the price she must pay, that is her own 
concern, and she deserves neither censure nor sympathy. 

Compensating If there be a compensating law in Provi- 

Retributions. dence, which holds human action to strict 

liability for the effects of cause in breaking 
moral law, it would seem that Belgium suffers compensating 
retribution for her atrocities in the rubber industry of the 
Congo Free (?) State. 



ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 59 

Also is this speculation applicable to the fate of Serbia. 
Memory is able to recall the dastardly assassination of Serbia's 
King and Queen by a clique of the royal guards, which dese- 
crated the precincts of the royal bedchambers to commit the 
crime in the dead of night. For petty grievance, real royalty, as 
royalty goes, was butchered that a lowly cowherd's heir might 
be elevated to royal position to establish a new dynasty upon 
the blood-soaked throne of Serbia. Change from our old-style 
spelling of the name Servia does not altar the fact or remove 
this black stain upon Serbia's escutcheon. 



Moral Effect (Four.) From the standpoint of "its moral 

Upon France. effect," Alsace-Lorraine should be withheld 

from France. Nothing should be done to 
encourage the military ambitions of France which expose her to 
the retributions of Dumas's exorable Fate. She cannot escape 
the dire consequence of her African conquests and draft of 
Africans to fight her battles at home. 

Anything which tempts a people to fly to arms on any provoca- 
tion, and especially upon disappointment from diplomatic de- 
feats or for acquisition of territory, should be eliminated. Italy 
should gain nothing from this war. 

Religion and (Five.) Whatever fate Germany decrees for 

Politics. Poland, its people are assured religious free- 

dom, if religion refrains from participation in 
any political enterprise. The religious persecutions of history 
generally have had their instigating causes rooted in the political 
activities of the adherents of the persecuted faith. This is true 
of Rome's persecution of the early Christians. It is true of the 
Huguenot persecutions, which my forebears fled, and St, 
Bartholemew, which had more political than religious incentive 
and significance. 

Though there may be no political crime chargeable to the 
Armenians, which is not established, the foundations of their 
faith in Hebrew national history, and the malignant example set 



60 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

by Christian Russia, is sufficient to incite the Mohammedan 
Turks to retributional frenzy. 

Protestant Christianity is not guiltless of most cruel persecu- 
tions on account of rehgion. The sympathies of Christians savor 
very much of fanatical hysteria. Christianity would purge itself 
of much of the fettering frictions of cross-purposes if it would 
confine the lessons of its Sunday School teaching to the New 
Testament and expurgate from that a few verses which comprise 
the keystone to Paul's doctrine of Christ the Atonement, a thing 
Christ never taught or contemplated. 

Old Testament scripture ought to be classed with the aca- 
demic studies of the ancient mythologies, which in no wise suffer 
by comparison. Thomas a' Kempis, Charles (Pastor) Wagner, 
and many others can re-emburse us for whatever we lose by 
sacrificing the Old Testament, the gems of which, like the 
Twenty-third Psalm, may be appropriated as are the master- 
pieces of modern poets. 

The Balkan (Seven.) The unjust arrangements for the 

Bungle. various Balkan states at the repartition of 

Europe, following Napoleon's overthrow, 
made for the very purpose which Patterson seeks in proffering 
his services to An^erica's guardian angel, left a smoldering, in- 
cipient, moulten caldron under the peaceful surface of all 
Europe, which is suffering today the horrors of the greatest 
eruption of the human passions, the worst cataclysm of human 
brotherhood the world has ever known. 

Just as that well-planned scheme of misguided diplomats has 
gone for naught, another resort to an European status com- 
promissorial will endanger our own country far more than she 
is endangered today through the collapse of those illusional de- 
signs. Our present danger lies in our fear, and only a continued 
condition of malevolent strife in Europe will give it serious 
reality. 

Racial adjustments of territory never will settle the problems 
of Balkan nationality. Territorial occupation has become in some 
instances a more commanding consideration than race. These 



ADVANTAGEOUS PEACE TERMS 61 

peoples need an arrangement of free interstate commerce among 
themselves, a strong union for mutual protection, and absolute 
independence of one another in the government of their internal 
affairs. 

Giving Villa a (Eight.) Those conversant with the Mexican 

Show. situation understand that the condition of 

Mexico is due to the machinations of those 
who lust for the exploitation of the labor and the resources of 
the land under the protection of a force which will be blind to 
the inherent rights of a people whose detestable traits of char- 
acter and worthy aspirations for emancipation are repulsive to 
those who would profit more through repressive subjugation than 
through the elevating forces of self-evolution. 

The only criticism that can attach to President Wilson in the 
administration of his Mexican policy is that he did not recognize 
Carranza at the time of his well founded rebuff to the United 
States, instead of watchfully waiting to let the lowest specimen 
of humanity that ever espoused the cause of the poor demonstrate 
his inability to pacify the country. 

Villa is nothing more than the blackest land pirate that ever 
roamed railroad tracks. He dispenses plunder to secure the 
protection of misguided adherents, and only his canny profession 
of friendship for the United States won him favor in the eyes 
of the administration. It is a case of the human in our president 
getting the better of his scholarly judgment. 

**Verboten." ^ (Nine.) While war indemnity is not a pe- 
culiarly German policy, it is the blackest of 
all blackmail and should be "verboten." Let the indemnity which 
anj'' of the warring nations receive be nein, nein. 

American For the protection of America, more impreg- 

Arrogance. nable than the strongest mihtary armaments, 

America wants to get the notion out of her 
head that she is destined to be an aggressive world influence. Let 
Europe settle her own affairs. The best thing for America would 



62 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

be the formation of an European republic upon the hnes of the 
original United States. 

So long as America welcomes all who come to her shores, if 
she never exacts of immigrants any condition more intolerable 
than that they pledge to accept a salutary standard of living, 
she need fear no conquest from without. As we are barring the 
Chi- and Japa-nese, we best keep our fingers out of the oriental 
pie. A Japanized China is not to be undesired, and amalgamation 
of Jap and Russ might produce a people we could welcome to 
citizenship. 

The author is first, last and all the time for American inde- 
pendence. But he believes that the only way to insure our in- 
dependence is to grant the entire world its independence of us. 
He makes a plea for American independence through the adop- 
tion of that policy. We cannot challenge the entire world and 
get away with it. 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 

An Ephemeral In his presentment of an argument that we 
Danger. won't consent to under§,tand that a highly or- 

ganized nation is a strong one, Mr. Patterson 
says in purport, all young men "ought to be made to go into the 
army for at least a year or the Japanese (will) gobble us." The 
proposition presented is as preposterous as the danger pictured is 
ephemeral. The day may come when Germany or Japan may find 
it necessary to give us a spanking for our insolence but neither 
nation will ever conquer us or attempt to do so. 

An Impotent The warning alarms sounded by hysterical 

Inventor. jingoists anent "the yellow peril to our coun- 

try pictures to our imagination a view of the 
situation which is well illustrated by the possible predicament of 
an amateur mechanical engineer. Utilizing his endowments of 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 63 

natural genius, he constructs an engine which is capable of de- 
veloping tremendous power. BHnded by the enthusiasm attend- 
ing his inventive zeal to his lack of practical experience in the 
operation of generative machinery, he adjusts the mechanisms 
which set his engine into motion and it begins to throb and 
pulse with the power of the forces which it is designed to employ. 

In his treatment of the control, regulation and stoppage of 
this engine, the inventor overlooked or made a serious error in 
some very important point and to his horror finds that it is be- 
yond his control. We see him a puny, futile, powerless atom of 
force quaking and quivering as he crouches in fear beside this 
mechanical monster which is in the grip of mighty forces which, 
beyond all control, will run their irresistible course until they are 
released and expended in the destruction of both machine and 
cowering inventor. 

Thus it is with America and Japan. A sea roving world ad- 
venturer, armed with discretionary, plenipotentiary commissions 
from a young and inexperienced nation which has ambitions to 
exercise its power as a force in the world of diplomacy, forces 
an old and exclusive nation, possessing latent forces of tremen- 
dous power, to open its door to America and the world. Some 
doors there be which swing one way only, but when the doors of 
Nippon were unlatched to let in the foreigner with his peddler's 
pack, they swung open to release an overcrowded people which 
found relief in coming out. 



Arming the It ever has been the way of the greed of 

Enemy. dominating civilizations to furnish their bar- 

barian neighbors with the equipment which 
the verile forces of the latter employed to the obstruction of the 
progress of the former even to the destruction of its existence. 

By taking barbarian Goths captive to Rome, the Roman 
soldiery equipped the hordes of Gaul with the covetous lust of 
temptation which destroyed Rome and her empire. The intem- 
perance of Christianity's evangelistic zeal with its dreams of 



64 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

world conquest, equipped the Mohammedans with the forces of 
fanaticism which threatened the extinction of Christianity. 

The colonists equipped the Indian with the arms and spirits 
which were employed in massacre. Through uncharitableness of 
intemperate speech, the abolitionists equipped the slave owning 
South with the bitter invictive and irreconcihation which de- 
stroyed all hope for solution of the negro problem which is more 
difficult and complex today than during the days of slavery. 



An American When young and uncouth America, with an 
Boomerang. amateurish inception and conception of the 

forces which actuated her course, equipped the 
civilized, not barbarian, Japanese with like forces, the internal 
conditions of Japan enabled them to develop these forces to far 
higher degrees of power than can we. In forcing the open door 
upon Japan, we knew not what we did. Wo^must face the situa- 
tion squarely, acknowledge our responsibility for its development, 
and sacrifice the vain ambition of intercontinental power for the 
welfare of our domestic interests. 

Our safety demands that we avoid obstruction of what we 
must concede to be the commendable aspirations of Japan. We 
must not deny her ample fields for the development and exercise 
of the virile forces which our mistaken zeal incited into move- 
ment. If we desire to prevent the location of these fields in the 
Western Hemisphere, we must not presume to say that Japan 
may not find them elsewhere, where she may. If we could nego- 
tiate the sale of the Philippines to Japan for the original pur- 
chase price, we ought, in all conscience, to sell. Is it for us to 
say that our civilization is better adapted than Japan's to meet 
native Philippine requirements? 

The responsibility for having a negro problem to harass us 
rests upon America. Also will rest upon us whatever of harass- 
ment arises through the Japanese question. The same is true of 
the "yellow peril" as it affects the entire world. 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 65 

A German The best argument, a good and conclusive one, 

Boomerang. in favor of the demand that Germany relin- 

quish Belgium is that, in compelling the evac- 
uation of Port Arthur by the Japanese in the peace settlements 
following the war with China, she denied the Japanese the fruits 
of victory. It cost Japan an incalculable price when she was 
forced to retake Port Arthur from the Russians. 

Application to Germany of a potion of her own sauce would 
constitute a salutary demonstration of the latent danger and 
the futility of the attempt of any nation to assume the prerog- 
atives of a world power. However, the author believes in the 
expediency of leaving the retributions of fate to whatever power 
or law has them in control. Therefore he is not in favor of 
making this argument applicable to the present and impending 
situation. 

England's Inter- Regarding the proposed alliance with England 
ests With Japan, as it affects the Japanese situation, it must be 
borne in mind that England made alliance 
with Japan because she saw that her interests in the far East 
would be conserved best through such an alliance. Can we expect 
that England will consider it good policy to dissolve an alliance 
with a strong, militant nation to form alliance that will burden 
her with the necessity of warring upon this war-efficient nation 
for the protection of a peace following people? 

Undemonstrated Patterson says truly, "We have neither the 
Qualities. intelligence nor the strength to be custodian of 

the morals of all other nations." It is yet to 
be demonstrated that we possess the ability to apply these quali- 
ties in the solution of our domestic problems. 

We have yet to establish a definite national consciousness of 
the objects and rights of government. 

We have yet to establish a code of national ideals. 

We have yet to establish a national history that provides a 
sound foundation for patriotic inspiration. 

We have yet to correct the fundamental errors in function of 
the three branches of our government. 



66 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

We have yet to devise the governmental machinery whereby 
democracy will be in reality self-governing. 

The Rigfht and Limitations of space allow only a touch upon 
Object of these points which are too important to be 

Government. passed entirely without comment. The bar 

associations of America hold that the object 
of government is to establish observance of law, and three- 
fourths of our legal ills are attributable to this premise. The 
only government worthy of popular support or divine sanction is 
that which has for its object the establishment of justice. Law, 
the means, has supplanted Justice, the end, of government. 

If we would be consistent in the relationship of our premise 
and the conclusions which our logic draws therefrom, it would 
seem that our history, if we hold it venerable, establishes the 
right of any democracy, provided it has the power to insure per- 
manent, stable, and tranquil politic conditions, to overthrow exist- 
ing government to establish another. If we desire to escape the 
evil of chaos, we must concede that the right to govern is in- 
herent with the power to govern. No revolutionary or evolution- 
ary progress is possible in popular government without estabhsh- 
ment of this premise. 

Our National Our national ideals are : unselfish Sacrifice of 

Ideals. personal interests to the general or public 

weal ; Purity, both in purpose and perform- 
ance, in personal and national conduct; and Truth, integrity in 
personal and national character and the loyalty of allegiance to 
God and country. These ideals are embodied in our flag, the 
colors of which were selected for their symbolism, but they are 
neither taught nor established as a code of national ideals. 

A Hopeful Sign. In the matter of respect for the flag, many 
feel deep and sincere regret that public gather- 
ings are not demonstratively responsive to the tune of "The Star 
Spangled Banner," and do not salute the colors when they are 
displayed upon public occasions. 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 67 

There is some reason for chagrin in the fact that the public 
does not receive the instruction regarding the ideals of which 
the flag is emblematic to instill in the heart of the citizen the 
inspiration which impels allegiance to country and flag. 

Not what our national history has been in the past, but what 
we aspire to make our future history, has the power to create 
vital patriotic enthusiasm. The impelling inspiration of the 
Wright brothers came through their vision of what aerial navi- 
gation might become, not the history of its past failures. 

There is great reason for hope and gratitude in the undem- 
onstrative trait of our public gatherings. It is one of the most 
hopeful signs of the times. It is a sign that we are outgrowing 
the hereditary instincts of our savage ancestry. The savage has a 
love of pomp and show which inheres the lust of lure to the 
display of ceremonial rites and exhibitions. 

There is a certain thralldom in ceremonial demonstrations 
which enslaves our thought and progress from the full emanci- 
pation of a free and untrammelled spirit. No doubt the thought 
that the homage of reverent silence may pay more worthy tribute 
to the colors than spontaneous conformity to ceremonial custom 
restrains many from both initiative and responsive participa- 
tion in public demonstrations. 

Our National Our teaching and study of national history is 

History. shameful and disgraceful to the last degree. 

We think, are taught, and teach that our 
young nation ever has been a paragon of virtue, reared by a 
continuous procession of saints. We need the courage and the 
vision to paint our historical picture, warts and all. 

Cross Purposes in The errors and cross-purposes of function in 
Government. our governmental branches are many and ap- 

parent but the greatest of them seems to have 
evaded all detection. The supreme courts of our nation, our 
states, our counties and our municipalities should pass upon the 
constitutionality and the construction of every law before it is 
enacted into statute. 



68 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

The court should review the proposed statute, note the several 
possible interpretations and draft statutes which will clearly and 
definitely express both the evident purpose of the legislation and 
the major purpose which seems conjectural, and refer them back 
to the legislature which can enact its will through passage of the 
draft which expresses it. 

Law then will be law, hard to enact, clear in interpretation, 
worthy of observance, and obligatory in execution. Executive 
power is vested with the right to employ executive law in hand- 
ling matters not covered by legislative law. If the advantages 
of this idea are not obvious, our blindness is due to an unfor- 
tunate condition of our senses or our motives. 

Effective We need, and \ye may devise, a feasible, work- 

Democracy able and expedious method for direct legisla- 

Needed. tion by democracy. Delegation of legislative 

power must pass. Execution of democracy's 
will may be delegated but legislative enactment of it never. 

As emancipation is coming, democracy must decide whether 
this emancipation is attainable "through the operation of present 
constitutional law. 

Higher Ideals It may be asked what this has to do with the 

Triumph, "yellow peril." Only this: If we intend to 

withstand the force of the ideals which are 
pressing the yellow races into the world arena, our ideals must 
inspire in us a greater force than theirs. Before we find the 
power which is indispensable, we must find the ideals which 
will generate it. 

The Japanese interpreter who officiated at "The World's 
Congress of Rehgions" in Chicago during "The World's Fair" 
for the leaders of the four chief branches of Buddhism which 
prevail in Japan, took occasion to profess his gratitude to Com- 
modore Peary as the Columbus who discovered Japan to the 
World and the World to Japan. He added that in the matter of 
religion, there is only one unassailable revelation of truth attain- 
able. There can be no finality in religion until all religions have 
been reduced to unalloyed, universal truth. 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 69 

The idea is not original with this interpreter, for many of us 
by independent action, have worked out our thought to the same 
conclusion, but when a whole people are imbued with the ideal 
that they shall seek irreducible truth, they will be handed the 
victor's laurel whether we relish it ^r not. 

Square Deal America must have strong conviction of re- 

Due Japan. sponsibility toward Japan. She may receive 

untold gratitude from the Japanese for having 
awakened their ambition, if we do not, through misunderstand- 
ing and misjudging them, attempt to thwart it. 

No people or nation ever will threaten our country lest we 
first give an offense of injustice to its people. 

Any state which does not prevent its citizens from embroil- 
ing our country in complications with any foreign nation should 
forfeit its sovereignty until it has made full redress. 

It is said that the Japanese are not wanted in California. If 
this be so, how comes it that they find employment, that they 
are enabled to win the means of support? We can not refuse to 
house, to feed, and to supply the material needs of any alien 
who has the means to purchase, but we can refuse to employ or 
buy from them. 

If the Japanese are not wanted in California they would not 
be there. They are opposed by those who feel their inferiority 
to the superior qualities of the Japanese and resent the presence 
which reminds them of it. What we are pleased to consider our 
superiority is too often inferiority of character. 

Our National A few things in our national history we well 

Shame. may ponder. Our nation is the only one on 

earth which captured savages to bring them 
into slavery and, for the slave market, breeded them to our own 
sires. No other nation ever waged a civil war as monstrous as 
ours, nor produced the unspeakable conditions now existent 
therefrom. 

No other nation ever enslaved the entire world to a habit as 
degrading as is the use of tobacco, introduced into the old world 



70 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

by America. When servility to habit is incorporated into na- 
tional idealism, as is evidenced by current fiction, illustrative 
art, and publicists, there is grave reason to pause and consider 
its import. 

We are prone to hold th© Italian and other Latin laborers in 
low esteem. These peoples are inspired by visions of family 
felicity which their labor will bring to them and their loved ones. 
The vision which elevates humble toil to the dignity of a noble 
calling is lacking in our native laborer who fails to see that com- 
fort, convenience, and luxury are available through the humble 
toil of ditch digging and the installation of modern plumbing. 

Ah ! Give America ideals that impel fealty. The noblest of 
these is the ideal of Peace. 

Danger in The author in nowise belittles the danger or 

Preparedness decries the possibility of an attack upon our 

Talk. , nation, but he sincerely believes that the dan- 

ger of these attacks, and the possibility of their 
occurance, is controlled by the attitude and action of forces 
within our politic body. 

To emphasize the need of preparedness at this time is fraught 
with grave danger. It will evidence our fear and challenge the 
whole world to attack us. Preparedness is the powder of a fuse. 
The more of it, the easier to ignite the fuse and the quicker the 
explosion. The more preparedness we have the easier it will be 
to fuse the nation into war and shorten the notice of the danger 
impending. 

Newspaper When newspaper publicists hammer upon th'e 

Humiliation. warning that unpreparedness is subject to the 

dangers of unnecessary loss of live in the 
event of attack, they refuse to consider that greater dangers to 
Hfe may impend through preparedness. If unpreparedness in- 
duces attack, why did not the Germans select us as the object of 
their militarian designs? 

Our military and naval authorities know the needs and re- 
quirements of our national defenses and we may trust their 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 71 

patriotism to guard our national interests and sound warning of 
our dangers without hint or hindrance from newspaper pubhshers 
who should feel deep humiliation in contemplation of the record 
of their profession at the outset of the Civil War. 

The insistent cry of the press, "On to Richmond," was solely 
responsible for the advance and the defeat of the Federal forces 
at Bull Run. The Federal authorities were whipping their forces 
and plans into condition for a successful issue from the first 
encounter of arms. But the press hounded them beyond en- 
durance and they staked the nation's life upon a premature cam- 
paign against a prepared enemy. A needless sacrifice was made 
in the rout at Bull Run, for had the lines of communication been 
perfected, victory would have been assured. 

The result of the initial battle of the war exerted a tremen- 
dous effect upon the morale of the Federal troops. So did it 
upon the Confederate. Reahzing the stake which hung upon the 
first movement of the army, its officers, loyal to their country and 
efficient in their service, did not propose to run the rash and 
unnecessary risk of defeat. Had the Federals won Bull Run, 
the moral effect upon the army would have spelled success to the 
Union forces, whereas a long list of defeats followed down to 
Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The blood of Bull Run is upon the 
American press which, had it a conscience, would be humbled in 
the memory of its deplorable part in the reverses of the Federal 
troops. 

No Analogy to Only infantile capacities of reasoning can con- 
China, sider the situation of our country analogous to 
that of China. In all Chinese history there is 
only one point of comparison. The Chinese population has de- 
generated through inbreeding. It refused to intermarry with the 
Manchus who conquered their country. England has suffered 
several invasions. Her impregnability has lain in the absorption 
of her conquerors. Another invasion would rejuvenate her peo- 
ple. America has no race stock. Her people have the harditude 
and virility that comes of intermarriage. The Chinese excluded 
foreigners. We have welcomed them for we are all foreign. 



It THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

The Chinese have adhered to the traditions of ancestry. We 
have refused to do so and shall continue to combat the danger 
of reverting to the traditions of our European ancestry. In re- 
fusing to absorb the Manchus, the Chinese learned to glory in 
their servility and the pigtail became a badge of honor. 

Our position is analogous with that of China in this : We are 
ruled by our own consent. Politicians extol the virtue of govern- 
ment by consent of the governed, but this poHcy of consent as- 
sures no safety to democracy. The European governments all 
held power through consent of the governed and we witness the 
helpless predicament of European democracy when its rulers 
abused the power vested in them by consent. 

Only Safety in Safety for democracy demands self-govern- 
Democracy. ment in the fullest sense, not government by 

representation or delegation of power. Lin- 
coln's immortal declaration needs amplification. Government 
of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people 
must be established on earth. We have government of most 
of the people, by few of the people, for some others of the 
people. It doesn't work in the interest of the people governed. 
If we desire anything better than autocratic rulership, we must 
find an adequate system by which rule by pure democracy may 
have a fair opportunity to demonstrate its practicability. 

Autocracy of The most serious obstacle in the way of the 

Peace Advocates, attainment of a plan which assures safety in 
the adoption of a permanent, universal peace 
policy is the lack of co-operative effort on the part of those who 
desire world peace. 

When Mr. Ford declares that he is willing to devote his entire 
fortune to the promotion of peace, he merely means that he is 
willing to stake his fortune upon the promulgation of his pet 
ideas. And the first of these, revision of school histories in the 
treatment of war, was advanced by newspaper readers a year 
prior to his taking it up. Yet Mr. Ford's peace secretary says in 
a letter to the author : "Mr. Ford has some original ideas on the 



THE JAPANESE PROBLEM 12> 

Peace proposition that he will undoubtedly put into effect and 
therefore would not allow his name to be used in connection 
with something that did not originate with him." And Miss Jane 
Addams has no time for other than her own peace ideas. 

Democracy amoiig peace adherents, not the autocracy of peace 
leaders, is essential for the success of the Peace movement. 
Within the month of the outbreak of the war, the readers of the 
Chicago Daily News advanced ideas which cover the entire sub- 
ject of the peace vs. war proposition and suggested plans so 
practical that in execution they would effect universal world 
peace. 

The progress of the peace movement is retarded by human 
proneness to inconsistency. In attempting the treatment of an 
original or an advanced line of thought on any subject, one in- 
variably and frequently employs language and phraseology which 
betrays the fact that he has not succeeded in entirely freeing his 
mind of the old mode of thought. 

When Bryan makes a strong plea for peace, he closes with a 
peroration upon the flag which is "consecrated by the blood of the 
forefathers." Thus, in the same breath in which he exhorts to 
peace, he exalts the monster war. 

War Intrenches The strongest support which war has is that 
Capital. of capitalism. The servility of democracy to 

capital is bad enough in times and conditions 
of peace. War is destroying vast stores of capital, but not the 
evidences of capital, which will demand of democracy an in- 
terest return upon capital that does not exist for it has been 
destroyed. 

Democracy will be forced to repudiate all the indebtedness 
of the nations incurred for war, before it will be emancipated 
from capitalistic slavery. 

Highest Friendship finds its highest expression when 

Expression of friends are so sure of the trust that may be 

Friendship. imposed in one. another, for each realizes that 

the other possesses character above suspicion, 
that they live together, come and go ; enter, remain in, or leave 



74 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

the presence of each other without feeling the necessity of speech 
or the desire for explanations of conduct involved during periods 
of absence. 

This condition should be sought in the relationship of nations. 
The American press gave publicity to incidents concerning the 
movement of German war vessels at Manila Bay and at Vera 
Cruz, and it is quite likely that the vessels of other nations 
showed as much interest in the proceedings as did the Germans 
and without causing comment. It is only too apparent that the 
dispatches and the comments of the press upon the action of 
these German commanders as spectators of international scrapes 
were designed to create anti-German sentiment. Whatever the 
merits of our sentiments toward any people, we should not impute 
ulterior designs to their every act. 

Hate May Hate, and all the forces which passion may 

Promote Peace, arouse to ally it, cannot be annihilated, but 
these forces may be harnessed and made to 
serve tl:ie intention of man to maintain peace. In control, fire is 
one of the greatest servants of civilization; beyond control it is 
one of the greatest destructive agencies which overwhelm man. 

If our hate is kept in control, we shall succeed in maintaining 
peace for we will see that our hate, beyond control in war, works 
greater injury to ourselves than to our enemy. Peter the Great 
found that he could make a contrary wind drive his boat against 
its own direction. So we may find, if we will, a way to make the 
forces which would drive us into war, take our ship of state into 
safe harbors of peace. 

Our physical life is constantly harassed by germs of typhoid, 
tuberculosis, and other malignant diseases, and fear of them 
aggravates the danger to which we are exposed. Agitation for 
increased preparedness might create the impression that the peo- 
ple of the nation are opposed to armed defense. 

'Tis safer to continue on the even tenor of our way, for no 
impression should go forth to the world that we shall hesitate to 
resort to the use of any weapon or force that is used against us, 



MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 75 

whenever our enemies demonstrate that they are amenable only 
to the arguments of such weapons. 

If "The Invasion of America," a bit of fiction recently pub- 
lished, is as reUable in detail of information concerning the de- 
fensive forces of our country, as claimed by its publishers, then 
both author and publisher are guilty of the treason of furnishing 
information to our enemies in times of peace, and should be 
stigmatized as traitors. 

Let America adhere to her original Declaration of Indepen- 
dence, confine her Destiny to the Western Hemisphere, and she 
will have no foe in all the world. 



MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 

Contention of By some the contention is made that the peo- 
Some. pies of Europe feel that their blood is flowing 

in sacrifice for the preservation of their 
countries' liberty and they will be disposed to evince their dis- 
pleasure and distrust toward any intrusion or interference on the 
part of the people of this country in the matter of effecting the 
terms of peace ensuing from the present conflict. 

Though they most assuredly would resent any show of favor- 
itism upon our part, it seldom happens that the parties to a 
scrape hold any resentment toward those who were instrumental 
in terminating their infraction of the peace. 

The "Morgan Peace Resolutions," which were drafted by the 
author October First, published December Sixteenth, Nineteen 
Hundred Fifteen, are absolutely neutral and state very fully the 
purpose and the right of neutrals to have an effective voice in 
the settlements establishing peace. 

The Instigating There is a strong and insidious influence in our 
Design. country which desires that the world shall 

remain an armed camp, and to counteract its 
subtle contentions it is necessary to emphasize certain phases of 
the situation in their bearing upon the welfare of humanity. 



76 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

Though it is clearly apparent to us in America that the present 
war was instigated for the purpose of diverting the attention of 
the people from the pursuit of greater liberty in the economic 
development of personality, with fuller participation and greater 
power in matters of government, we fail to reaUze that we as a 
people are just as fully exposed to the danger of having war 
thrust upon us against our will, and without a fair opportunity 
to submit to our sober judgment the issues involved. 

We must not forget that the machinations of the governing 
classes of Europe have beguiled the people into the belief that 
their cause was just throughout the inceptive stages leading to 
war, and that they are now in a position of complete helplessness 
to exercise any control over it. 

People Sure to The liberty of the individual has ever been 
Lose. crushed by compulsions which force him to 

serve the designs of those who have secured 
Control of his fate, and he is given no other choice than to join 
in wars made by others, though through adroit machination he is 
led to beHeve that he is waging war of his own choosing or for 
his own interest. 

When the forces which direct these conflicts were human, it 
frequently fell out that the people received concessions of partial 
liberty, either a bribe for change of allegiance or reward for 
fealty under enticing temptation to desert their masters. Under 
such conditions there was some advantage to be gained by sup- 
porting the cause of the winning side, though always at the 
expense of the vanquished. 

But today the force which holds the mastery over all men, 
in both peace and war, is capital — a thoroughly unhumanized 
force. It is merciless. With utter disregard of the right of man 
to enjoy the blessings of life, it demands its tribute in ever- 
increasing levies. The manipulators of capital insist that its 
servants at all times shall render it the homage of the human 
courtesies, yet they never feel that they in turn should display 
any of the attributes of humanity in their treatment of those who 
labor. 



MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 11 

Such are the conditions today that should one side in the 
present struggle receive a strong advantage over the other, the 
peoples of the winning side will find themselves in greater sub- 
jugation than they were prior to the war, while the peoples on 
the losing side will obtain greater freedom. The losers in this 
war will be the peoples of the winning nations. 

Many Changes The author would bring to the attention of 
Possible. the reader the possibility of effecting many im- 

portant modifications in the ante-bellum status 
without conflict with the terms of the "Morgan Resolutions." 

Not in recommendation, but in statement of possibility, are 
the suggestions here noted. Ireland and Poland could be granted 
autonomy; the Balkans could form a United States; under neu- 
tral supervision, Alsace-Lorraine by popular vote could choose its 
future affination; freedom of the high seas could be guaranteed 
to all; the Dardanelles, Gibraltar, the Straits of Dover, entrance 
to the Baltic, and the Panama and Suez canals could be open to 
all ships, under bond that they continue their course to high seas ; 
the continental domains of the English Empire could be auton- 
omized ; and other dispositions arranged looking to the extension 
of self-government in territories where the inhabitants are dis- 
posed to fuse in the brotherhood of harmonious federation. 

Races of Granite Never will one race of people dominate the 
Endurance. affairs of the world, nor can any combination 

of races, the strongest unit of which is weaker 
than a race outside the alliance, maintain a position of dominance. 
If peace on earth is to be established only through a preponder- 
ance of influence and power, it can only come through the fusion 
of the world's three strongest, most virile races. 

Granite, the most enduring of rocks, was formed through the 
mixture and cementation of the sedimentary sands of three pre- 
existing rocks which were ^ disintegrated by the elements of 
nature. So with humanity — its enduring state will come through 
mixture and cementation of pre-existing races disintegrated by 
the elements of human nature. 



78 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 

And so the well-being of humanity will be advanced only 
through acceleration of this fusion of races. The three races 
which eventually fuse will endure like the quartz, felspar, and 
mica of grani|;e, not by sustaining their separate entity, but by 
becoming a constituent part of the enduring whole. 

Hence any settlements of the present cataclysm in Europe, 
which strengthen the race entity of any nation, will retard human 
progress, and any settlements which hasten the cementation of 
the races will promote human progress. 

Neither Ready It will be a world calamity to have Germany 
for Power. subjected to the point of humiliation ; neither 

is it desirable that the German people attain a 
dominating position over the other races of the world. As a 
nation, the Germans have yet to acquire the qualities of mind 
which permit a conceptive and discerning insight into the motives, 
aspirations, and visions whch possess and actuate the personality 
of older and less virile civilizations. This faculty is so easily 
within their reach, they are so eminently in a position to obtain 
it, one marvels that they fail to grasp it. 

Nor are the English people as well fitted to understand the 
institutions and point of view of other peoples. The tyranny of 
the ruling classes in England has been more cruelly exercised 
upon the peoples of the British Isles than upon the dependent 
peoples of the British Empire. No prediction can be made of the 
attitude which the English people will assume toward the rest of 
the world after they have secured control of their own destiny. 

The history of the world has been made by those who ac- 
quired power before they were prepared to exercise it wisely. 
When they who have endured oppression are elevated to positions 
of power, they are prone to desire that others undergo at their 
hands the oppression to which they have been subjected. 

Thus it is impossible to foresee or predfct with any degree of 
certainty what sort of national consciousness will evolve in the 
British Isles through the ascendency of the working classes who 
are benefiting from the social revolution now in progress. 



MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 79 

Permission On condition that they be used in their 

Granted. entirety, that they be designated "The Morgan 

Peace Resolutions," and that the copyright 
phrase shall not be detached or altered, permit for the use of 
these resolutions is granted to any and all who desire that their 
influence be felt in speeding the triumph of Peace over War. 



The Morgan Peace Resolutions. 

(Copyright, 1915, by H. A. Farrand.) 

Belief and Desire. Whereas, We believe that the financial sup- 
port afforded nations at war is the chief effec- 
tive causation of belHgerency; and 

Whereas, We believe that the actuative motive behind the 
extension of financial support to belligerent nations is desire for 
financial gain ; and 

Whereas, We believe that the burdens of war are inevitably 
imposed upon neutral countries through the belligerency of na- 
tions at war ; and 

Whereas, We believe that the belligerent state now existing 
in the Old World was not induced by the instigation of those who 
must bear the ensuing burdens ; and 

Whereas, W^e believe that no generation has any moral right 
to burden posterity with the indebtedness ensuant from war ; and 

Whereas, We desire the removal of incentive for gain in 
the waging of war and in the grant of loans to warring coun- 
tries ; and 

Whereas, We desire that, when belligerency ends, the peo- 
ples now at war may speedily enjoy the fruits of peace ; and 

Whereas, We desire the inauguration of a world-wide 
status conducive to the elimination of the instigating influences 
for war ; be it therefore 



80 THE PATRIOTS' PROTEST 



Resolutions. Resolved, That, when they gather for this 

purpose, the following terms and conditions 
be presented for consideration and possible incorporation into 
the treaty of peace which will be effected by the representatives 
of the nations at war : 

Article I. There shall be no acquisition of territory. 

Article II. There shall be no war indemnity imposed upon 
any nation. 

/ Article III. The nation in which the property existed shall 
be liable for all private claims through the damages of war. 

Article IV. No interest shall be payable on existing war 
loans of whatsoever nature or form. All interest obligations 
shall be voided. 

Article V. The principal amount of all war loans of whatso- 
ever nature or form shall be payable in twenty or twenty-five 
equal installments by the nation contracting the loan. 

Article VI. Articles IV and V shall not apply and operate 
unless each of the other preceding Articles I, II and III are 
adopted in the spirit and letter of their phraseology. 

Be it further resolved, That we seek the incorporation into 
international law of the following principle: 

All indebtedness, of whatsoever kind or of whatsoever man- 
ner or form, incurred by a civic government for purposes of 
armament or guard, or for the conduct of defensive or offensive 
war, shall neither draw, bear nor accrue interest in any form 
or manner whatsoever. 

Designation and Whereas, The elder J. P. Morgan is credited 
Effort. with having exacted the condition of peace 

when arranging a loan for an imperial govern- 
ment ; be it further 

Resolved, That these resolutions be known as "THE MOR- 
GAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS;" be it further 

Resolved, That all persons, parties, societies and organiza- 
tions which desire and seek the elimination of war from human 
affairs are hereby invited and urged to join in the presentment 



MORGAN PEACE RESOLUTIONS 81 

of these resolutions and in concerted effort to make them 
effective through every influence and force, private and public, 
which may be exerted to forward this consummation. 

(Those who are not delegated with the power which allows 
them to commit their organization to a definite course of action, 
and those who deem it expedient not to commit themselves to 
active support of these resolutions, may add the following:) 

Be it resolved, That it is not the intention of (name of or- 
ganization) to commit themselves to the support of the foregoing 
resolutions; but be it 

Resolved, That (name of organization) hereby propose the 
foregoing resolutions for public consideration and action. 

Homer A. Farrand. 



THE PATRIOTIC COURSE 

(See Page Thirteen.) 

The matter under this head was injected into the article as 
originally written through instigation of the following excerpt 
from an address delivered by President Wilson at about that 
time. 

"There are citizens of the United States, I blush to admit, 
born under other flags but welcomed under our generous 
naturalization laws to the full freedom and opportunity of 
America, who have poured the poison of disloyalty into the 
very arteries of our national life ; who have sought to bring 
the authority and good name of our government into con- 
tempt, to destroy our industries wherever they thought it 
effective for their vindictive purposes, to strike at them and 
to debase our politics to the uses of foreign intrigue. No 
federal laws exist to meet this situation, because such a 
thing would have seemed incredible in the past. Such crea- 
tures of passion, disloyalty and anarchy must be crushed out. 
They are not many, but they are infinitely malignant and 
the hand of our power should close over them at once." 



THE FAITH OF THE FUTURE 

We place our faith in Humanity. 

We believe that the natural impulses of Humanity are good. 

We believe that the body is the vehicle of all spiritual growth. 

We believe that human wretchedness is due to the acceptance 
cf false doctrine. 

We believe that Humanity, to its lowest member, may raise 
itself to the highest levels of life. 

We fraternize with all Humanity. 

We refuse to accept any reward of life not available to all 
Humanity. 

We give our life freely for Humanity. 

We ask Humanity to be true to itself. 



82 



A DIAGNOSIS OF CHRISTIANITY 

(Submitted Dec. 12, 1914, to Everybody's 
in contest on What Is a Christian f) 

Accounting for Its Subserviance to War 

Christianity is a progression; its goal the attainment of per- 
fect soul development by every human creature. Its progress 
depends upon man's abihty to grasp its real significance. There 
has been only a vague understanding and amateurish appHcation 
of its purpose and power. Complete revelation waits upon hu- 
manity's capacity for it. 

In the manifold and graduated stages of Christianity, the 
Christian must act within the settings of his stage. What is 
christian for one may be un-christian for another, and what is 
christian for one today may be un-christian for him tomorrow. 
With spiritual development the purpose of life, the Christian 
seeks to promote the growth of his soul. With success in keeping 
with his intimacy with God, with whom he has accessible means 
of communication, he fosters the good and fights the evil which 
contend for his attention and support. 

Enlistment, not the vicissitude of battle, makes the Christian. 
Though the Christian virtues are to be striven for, they are 
fruits, not proof, of Christianity. 

Christianity being based upon the Fatherhood of God and 
the Brotherhood of Man, the test of the Christian is that he feel 
charity and good will for all mankind. The most degenerate and 
repulsive man will seem worthy of his love and service, for he 
sees in him a wandering brother, not an outcast. 

Christianity is suffering the effects of imperial edict and the 
doctrine that Christ made atonement for the sin of the world. 

Since Roman emperors made Christianity their state reli- 
gion, more importance has been attached to profession of faith 
than to living in accord with Christ's teaching. The failure 
of Christians to square their lives with Christianity is the cause 

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84 A DIAGNOSIS OF CHRISTIANITY 

of infidelity among young people. No nation is Christian whose 
young men and young women do not believe in both the temporal 
and permanent advantage of virtuous living. 

Christianity is the art and science of living true to the rela- 
tionship with God and man affirmed by Christ. 

The doctrine of salvation by atonement lays stress upon ac- 
cepting Christianity instead of upon living it. It reconciles 
Christians to poverty, crime, and war. War has no place in Chris- 
tianity, though the present state of society is so complex that 
individual Christians may be forced to participate in it. 

Only a distorted view of Christianity can find defense even 
for our civil war. National honor is not justification for war ; 
nor is national existence unless freedom of thought and action 
within the security of justice is denied to those involved. De- 
fense of war comes of the idea that God controls the progress 
of humanity. 

The world needs the seven-days-a-week Christianity lived 
by Christ before He publicly undertook His mission. Proper in- 
terpretation and application of Christianity will draw the peoples 
of earth together in common brotherhood. It will supplant com- 
petition with co-operation in both spiritual and material life. It 
will unite Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant in Christian 
fellowship and concerted effort to attain Christianity's goal. 

Homer A. Farrand. 



OUR HERITAGE 

"Our yesterdays are mighty," the world today prides itself 
on what it is, not stopping to think that it owes what it" is to what 
it has been. The civilization of Greece, Egypt and Rome is the 
basis of our civilization and source of our knowledge. We owe 
our present condition to the farsightedness and prudence of our 
ancestors, who toiled and labored for their own benefit and, 
at the same time, laid a foundation for our future success. We 
are indebted to them for all our accomplishments and many bene- 
fits of which we daily make use. They put their lives before us 
as examples that we might imitate them to the best of our abil- 
ity. Think of the integrity and iron will of our forefathers who 
left their fatherland to come to this unknown, uncivilized country 
of America. They struggled for independence and won it, they 
struggled for the things that were necessary for maintaining life. 
They did not think that the struggling little country, as it was 
then, would rise to the powerful nation that it is today. And this 
nation of ours would not be enjoying the many conveniences in 
this twentieth century today if our ancestors had not produced 
the material by which they might be acquired. What do we in- 
herit from them? If it is not worldly possessions, it is their 
mental ability, ambition and, the chief of all, their moral stand- 
ing, namely, character. Character is property, it is the noblest of 
possessions, and it is true that we must hammer and forge our- 
selves a character, not dream one, for our greatest success lies 
chiefly in ourselves. 

Perception and action, a quick eye and clear vision, a vigorous 
right arm and deft hand, these are the masters of success in any 
and in every pursuit. The true dignity and significance of life, 
that which quickens the blood and fires the soul, is something 
more than ordinary bread-earning. It is that which stands in 
high relation to society around us and to the ultimate needs of 
our spiritual powers. 

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86 OUR HERITAGE 

We do not dispute the fact that many do not inherit the ability 
of their ancestors, for we have people with us who do not own 
that property of character. It is very common to see people, 
starting in the world, make a failure of it; they try to persevere, 
but, losing courage, fall under as though tired by a wearisome 
burden, and keep on falling till they are in the lowest stage of 
humanity and then are in the streets and gutters, with compan- 
ions who seem to be friends but are enemies as destructive to 
character as poison is to the body. If this class of people, vaga- 
bonds as they are called, had inherited any good qualities from 
their ancestors, they utterly disregarded them, and by their own 
folly have come to the place where they are a detriment to the 
community and, what is worse, continue the bad example to the 
succeeding generation. 

On the other hand, we see a youth struggling in the world 
who is surrounded by nothing but vice and temptation, he yields 
to them occasionally but each time resolves to conquer them in 
the end, which he finally does. He has won for himself a thing 
no one can take away from him or give him, his character. Our 
greatest glory does not consist in never falling but in rising from 
each fall to struggle on to the goal. 

Some have an ambition \o bring up boys as gentlemen or, 
rather, genteel men, but the attempt frequently results in making 
them only gents. They acquire a taste for dress, style, luxury 
and amusement, which never forms any solid foundation for 
manly character. The result is that we have turned upon the 
world a large number of young gingerbread gentry that resemble 
empty hulls drifting at sea. 

As drunken men often think themselves sober enough so young 
people are likely to think themselves wise enough. They think 
themselves ready to take great responsibilities and this over- 
confidence often results in their downfall. Here it may be said, 
"A little learning is a dangerous thing." 



OUR HERITAGE 87 

We must not blame a lad for his parentage. If he is given 
an opportunity, is not jeered and scoffed at, he may ascend the 
ladder of ambition, starting at the bottom with lowHness and 
climbing higher step by step until he reaches its topmost round 
and finds there his reward — success. When he has attained that 
for which he has struggled and battled, he may look back on the 
difficulties which he encountered and scorn the degrees by which 
he ascended. 

While it is true we must hammer and forge our character, 
the product of our handicraft must needs be patterned after the 
model of our ideal, which should be selected and fashioned with 
great care from the lives of our predecessors. 

"Lives of great men all remind us 

We may make our lives sublime 
And, departing, leave behind us 

Foot prints on the sands of time." 

[The author believes "Our Heritage" to be a child of his 
brain, conceived by the opening quotation "Our yesterdays are 
mighty," but he does not recognize the brat, which he finds in 
carbon copy among manuscripts written in the summer of nine- 
teen-twelve. 

It contains a few crudities and possesses a few features char- 
acteristic of his literary offspring, but it will occasion him no 
surprise to be confronted with proof establishing other parentage. 
Meanwhile, we father it. If that relationship is disproved, we 
shall ask to be honored as its god-father.] 



PARTY LOYALTY* 

We have heard much in past campaigns, and will hear more in 
this, of the glorious history of the Republican party. We could 
never find the subject sufficiently interesting to make an exhaus- 
tive study of the history of the Republican' party, but there are 
some things in that history which stand out so prominently that 
we wish to comment on them. 

The Republican party was formed in 1856, a crystallization of 
the Northern sentiment against the extension of slavery into the 
territories. Instead of tackling the great, live, vital question of 
abolition, the organizers contented themselves with this small 
phase with only an indirect bearing on the main issue. They 
lacked both the courage and the wisdom to tackle the larger 
problem. If slavery as an institution was to be allowed at all, 
its extension into those regions where slaveholders naturally emi- 
grated was only logical, that their usual mode of living could be 
maintained and that there could be a market for the increasing 
slaves. The South realized this and prepared to fight out the 
issue. 

It knew that Abraham Lincoln, with peace, would solve the 
problem of abolition and that the only way to maintain slavery 
was by secession. Whether by design or not, the firing on Fort 
Sumter, in a way, helped its cause. One thing is certain, the 
failure of the Republican party to take up the direct, material 
issue of aboHtion cost, as the reader can see, a terrible toll of 
lives. When the flag was^fired upon, the whole North burst into 
flame because the Stars and Stripes had been desecrated. The 
issue of slavery was lost sight of and secession was the thought 
that occupied everyone's mind. On the issue of secession, the 
North blindly poured forth the prime of its manhood to fill its 
armies at the front. 



*Written in summer of Nineteen-Twelve, Timely so long as desire for 
popular government dwells in the human breast. 

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PARTY LOYALTY 89 

What passed in Lincoln's mind up to January, 1863, the writer 
does not knov/, though there no doubt is some record. He cer- 
tainly was troubled to know if the North was on God's side in the 
conflict, but whether in the matter of secession or of slavery we 
are uncertain. But secession seems to have taken complete pos- 
session also of his mind, for the Emancipation Proclamation was 
not issued till January 1, 1863, and then only as a war measure. 
Only those slaves whose masters were in arms against the North 
were freed and they were given their freedom- only because they 
were contributing to the strength of the Southern armies, which 
had been uniformly successful up to that time. From that time 
on the Northern armies began to win and, slowly, with terrible 
sacrifice of lives, wore the South down to subjection to the in- 
evitable. 

But what a tribute God levied, through the Republican party, 
against the nation for its falure to do its whole duty. We are 
compelled to think that Lincoln, also, was at fault. If he had 
squarely met the issue in April, 1861, he might have lived to 
solve the race question which remains unsolved to this day. The 
long, terrible stiain of the years' of war aroused the frenzied 
spirit in which Lincoln was assassinated. 

Only one thing the war directly settled — the rule of the ma- 
jority. Only one thing it indirectly settled — the abolition of 
slavery. The race question, with its allied one of labor, is in 
worse shape today than before the war. And why? Because 
the Republican party, instead of handling the problem of recon- 
struction which was to settle the fate of the negro under eman- 
cipation, in a cool, thoughtful, far-seeing, well-regulated way, 
went about it in a way both hot-headed and well calculated to 
promote a prolific field of graft for an army of small politicians. 

A party which today will not concede to women the ability, to 
say nothing of the right, to vote, in those days of its "grand his-, 
tory" gave the negroes which were ignorant of our history, our 
institutions and the state and national issues of the country, the 
right to the franchise. We must confess that our faith in the 
superiority of the white race is badly shaken when we think of 
the history of the Republican party at that time. 



90 PARTY LOYALTY 

The great panics of 1873 and 1907 are two fine examples of 
what we can expect under Republican administrations, but we 
must, forsooth, lay the panic of 1893 to the opposing party. The 
two first mentioned occurred because the Republican party is the 
tool of Wall Street and the last because the Democratic party was 
not, Wall Street taking the opportunity for a chance to lay the 
blame to the tariff. Let us once realize that panics are tools by 
which the moneyed powers plunder the pubUc and we shall find 
a cure for them. If the Democrats had won the election of 1868 
and been in power during every administration since, our Repub- 
lic would be just as large and prosperous today. 

Party pride and party loyalty are commendable if the party 
which inspires them is worthy. We demand of the individual 
who would be considered worthy that he show himself a friend 
of the weak, a brother to those who differ with him in matters 
of opinion and, withal, a man of courage. What have we a 
right to expect of a party? 

Ah ! vile, contemptuous name ! Party, party, party, is only 
the synonym for greed, graft and crime. Down with the parties ! 
will be the public warcry before we obtain the public's rights "for 
the people. If the people formed the parties, it would be a differ- 
ent matter. But they do not and have not since the days of 
Andrew Jackson. A bunch of office-seeking, bribe-taking, bribe- 
giving grafters erect a grand, magnificent, powerful looking ma- 
chine which they assure us will haul the whole country into a 
great era of prosperity if we buy their machine and hire them to 
run it for us. 

We choose the machine whose makers are the most adept and 
plausible at describing the merits of what they offer and then go 
about our business of getting our due share of that promised 
prosperity. But, like the great horse of Troy, there are some 
inside facts about those machines which begin to show them- 
selves up when they get them to work. We find that the interests 
financed the building of them with a covert understanding that 
they are to be run, not for the country's prosperity, but "for the 
gain and profit of the money kings. , 



PARTY LOYALTY 91 

"You are putting that too strong," you say. Well, it is not a 
new idea with us. Our blood ran hot ten years ago when the 
country blindly sent an increased Republican majority back to 
congress and, at that, the blood in our veins was RepubUcan. The 
country had just had a good example of the arrogant disregard 
of the Republican party for the public interests, yet the people 
plainly showed them that they could follow this course with 
impunity. 

Political parties are a curse to the country. Nor have we need 
of them any more. Not that we say so. Anyone looking for the 
truth will discover it so. Look at them ! Every law passed in 
Congress is passed, not by independent vote, but by party vote, 
passed for party expediency only. Not because the country 
needs the party but because the interests want to retain party 
control. Every law the people have demanded has been refused 
th^m just as long as the Republican party felt it safe to refuse. 

We need representatives who, after being elected, will work 
wholly and heartily for the national welfare as expressed by the 
popular vote. Men who strive to carry out the popular will ex- 
peditiously and well. Men who are big enough to know that they 
represent the whole nation, not their little one five-hundredth 
part of it alone. We need a condition where majorities and 
minorities work together to advance the general welfare. 

If our form of government is ever to be fully developed, ma- 
jorities and minorities must learn the relationhip that it is neces- 
sary to have in existence between them after every contest at the 
polls. The majority to realize that the minority has its rights and 
its feelings and holds the same loyal spirit toward our common 
country. The minority to realize that the majority is probably 
right, and therefore aid in carrying out its will, knowing that if 
it proves wrong, the results next time will be reversed, placing 
them in the majority. 

One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars to elect Roose- 
velt ! when Judge Parker would have made as good a president. 
We must create a condition that will place power directly in the 
people's hands. A condition that will make it of no consequence 
to the welfare of the country which candidate is elected to office, 



92 TEDDY'S TANTALIZING TENACITY 

if he be an honest, capable man. Do parties form policies for 
the national welfare? Hardly. They formulate and promulgate 
high-sounding, vote-catching phrases, inserting a real vital policy 
Into the party platform only when the public which formulated it 
can be refused no longer. Woman's suffrage, for example, is a 
national is^ue, yet neither party would touch it. 

Our country needs patriots, men who serve their country, 
not their party. To obtain this service for the country we must 
smash the parties. None of us can serve two masters, and the 
party's interests and the country's interests are often quite diver- 
gent. 

The political parties, with their perpetuating machinery, are 
not needed. They can be successfully exterminated and sup- 
planted by pure popular rule. If you favor such a course, we 
want to hear from you. 



TEDDY'S TANTALIZING TENACITY 

(Written in 1912. Good for 1916.) 

We now come to an incident contemplation of which saddens 
us. The shock of the unsophisticated was ours when Theodore 
Roosevelt manipulated his own convention eight years ago in a 
way to make mere puppets of all the public participants therein. 
It revealed to us lack of faith and trust in the public and, just 
now, our judgment has been verified by the revelation of a $1,- 
900,000 campaign fund to make sure the election of a public hero. 
Great as was our disappointment in Roosevelt at that time, it 
opened our eyes and saved the heart-pangs that must be experi- 
enced at this time by those who have kept their faith in Roosevelt 
throughout the years of public misuse of power. 

From his elevation to the presidency until that time, we had 
considered him the equal of Lincoln. Sophisticated, indeed. Lin- 
coln, who could give charge of a cabinet office to one who had 
been bitterly criticising its conduct, compared with a man who 
hesitates not a moment to discard and disgrace any friend who 
dares to protect his honor when the rough-rider of San Juan Hill, 



TEDDY'S TANTALIZING TENACITY 93 

for the purpose of cleaning off the sHme with which his own con- 
duct has besmeared him, attempts to ride over it roughshod. 

It may well be a matter of public concern that Theodore 
Roosevelt was not nominated by the Republican convention at 
Chicago (1912). It would have given all lovers of a good, clean, 
fair fight an opportunity to demonstrate that this country will not 
blindly follow a demagogue when the mask and suppression 
of facts behind which he takes refuge has been torn away and 
his true nature is exposed to scrutiny. The country would then 
awake upon the morning of November 6th and find that nasty 
taste in the public mouth had disappeared. As it is, that nasty 
taste will linger for years to come, because the voters will not 
know and have a clean-cut chance to show to Roosevelt's satis- 
faction that they have no further use for him and his bull moose 
bellowing and promiscuous wallowing in the pond of public 
issues, whose waters he has roiled until no one can see the fish 
of public reform we had hoped to catch therefrom. 

Allowing anyone else to rule when Teddy is around is like 
waving a red rag before a bull. If he had been entered in the 
Republican pen in the grand, quadrennial fair, the judges could 
have pierced his nose, snapped in a ring and, with the pole of 
popular ballot, led him down to the White Star docks with a 
gentle and effective hint that he hie himself to the kaiser's realm 
and bask in the light of that brother egotist's admiration. 



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INDEX 



Alliance, the folly of 33 

Arrogance, American 61 

Atrocities of war, the 22 

Authority, Roosevelt no 36 

Balkan bungle, the 60 

Belgium — chose her fate 58 

Sensible neutrality 58 

Birth Rate 

Universal misconception 47 

The law of regulation 48 

Boomerang, an American 64 

an English 30 

a German 65 

Bravery of Roosevelt, the 41 

Bryan's position 19 

Capital, war intrenches 73 

China, no analogy to 71 

Consent of the Governed 

No analogy to China 71 

Danger, an ephemeral 62 

in preparedness talk 70 

Democracy, effective, needed.... 68 

only safety in 72 

purer needed 38 

war endangers 29 

Neither ready for power 78 

People sure to lose Id 

Races of granite endurance. .. 77 

Enemy, arming the 63 

England, individualism ya. 31 

Drastic measures (with) 33 

England's interests with japan.. 65 

cause, pleading 27 

English, boomerang, an 30 

policy 34 

Farce, the Mexican 42 

Fate, Belgium chose her 58 

Finance, the policy dictates 28 

Disrobing Justice 28 

Flag, our, insulted 13 

A hopeful sign 66 

Forces which destroy, the 25 

France, the glory of 52 

moral effect upon 59 

treason of, to her traditions. .. 50 

Free thinking, source of 49 

speech defended 9 

French Blood, heritage of 51 

Friendship, highest expression of. 73 
German, superiority of, idea.... 31 

picture, a _ 53 

anti-, feeling fanatical 21 

Germany — ^must make good 23 

opportunity of, the 36 

pride of, the...._ 52 

social responsibility in 32 

strength of, the 34 

treason of, to her interests. .. .51 
Tutorship of error, the (in)... 35 
Sympathy and goodwill (for).. 54 



Good name 

A German picture 53 

Government, cross purposes in.. 67 

right and object of, the 66 

Cloud of mystery, a (in) 45 

Hate may promote peace 74 

History, our national 67 

Honor, Roosevelt and 57 

Hunting trip, a suspicious 44 

Ideal, excelsior, of America, the. 26 

Ideals, able to champion new.... 17 

"All America stands for'' (in). 16 

our national 66 

higher triumph 68 

Undemonstrated qualities 65 

Impregnable position, the 25 

Industry, shibboleth of 24 

Inheritance, an enduring 15 

Insult, injury added to 54 

Inventor, an impotent 62 

Jealousy, the contempt of 40 

Justice, disrobing. 28 

Language, compulsion of 51 

Leadership that enslaves 37 

The new public servant 39 

Lorimer 

Black sheep and a rent veil... 40 

Mexican farce, the 42 

It so happened 43 

Monroe Doctrine 

of the seas 56 

American arrogance 61 

An enduring inheritance 15 

The folly of alliance 33 

Security in European peace... 24 

Shibboleth of industry 24 

Our sympathy and good will.. 54 

Nationality, artificial 56 

Nations, to the gaiety of 47 

lessons, will learn 18 

The forces which destroy 25 

Neutrality, sensible T. ._. 58 

worn down 12 

Newspaper humiliation 70 

Panama, two deals in 42 

Patriotic course, the 13, 81 

Patriotism, sapping 32 

the higher 2^6 

sober minded 11 

The slogan, then and now 8 

Patriots, early, inspiration of.... 18 
Peace, autocracy of advocates. . . . 72 

hate may promote 74 

security in European 24 

The impregnable position (of). 25 
terms, Patterson's reversed. .. 55 

Many changes possible Tl 

Phillippines — 

An American Boomerang ....64 



95 



INDEX— Continued 



Philosophy of war, the 20 

Picture, a German 53 

Pictures of shame 53 

Policy finance dictates, the 28 

Preparedness, danger in, talk ....70 

Arming the enemy 63 

The bravery of Roosevelt 41 

The Forces which destroy 25 

Hate may promote peace 74 

The impregnable position 25 

The policy finance dictates. . . .28 

Principle, the democratic 38 

the republican 39 

Protest, reasons impelling 12 

Public does its own thinking. .. .30 

the new, servant 39 

Open door, the, and trespass. ... 15 

Opinion, a discarded . 37 

Races of granite endurance 11 

Reason, the guidance of .29 

Religion and politics 59 

Retributions, compensating 58 

Roosevelt — 

The balance of probability. .. .41 

A cloud of mystery 45 

Hail! The moon-minded !... .46 

Sagacity not expected 45 

Shame, our national 69 

pictures of 53 

of toryism, the 35 

Shibboleth of Industry 24 



Short circuits undesirable 20 

Social purity, the law of 48 

Square deal due Jap'an 69 

Swine — 

The tutorship of error 35 

Toryism, the shame of 35 

Excelsior ideal of America. .. .26 

Our _ flag insulted 13 

Inspiration of early patriots, ... 18 ' 

Sapping patriotism 32 

Treason of France 50 

of Germany 51 

Thrift, Patterson slurs 49 

Trust tragedian, the 43 

Verboten 61 

Villa, giving, a show. 61 

War, intrenches capital 73 

fruits of, are barren 20 

philosophy of, the 20 

knows no law . ._ 23 

short circuits ideas 19 

The insti'gating design 75 

Washington^ — a slur against 14 

had prophetic vision 14 

World policy, our dangerous. ... 16 
The Yellow Peril- 
American arrogance 61 

An American boomerang 64 

Higher ideals triumph 68 

Square deal due Japan 69 



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